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For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
Brad Feld
Life
Change
Struggle
Money
Power
Past
Control
Other
Way
Those
Status
Retaining
Like
Protect
Comfort
Inevitability
Bunch
Trying
Predictability
Against
Things
The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.
Brianna Wu
Work
Do The Right Thing
Lesson
Took
Right Thing
Status
Status Quo
Main
Quo
The Right Thing
Asking
Right
Thing
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
Bryan Stevenson
You
Suffering
Will
Pain
Think
Status
Status Quo
Stay
See
Anguish
Most
Am
Same
Afraid
Quo
Creates
Things
Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
Camryn Manheim
Amazing
Status
Most
How
Celebrity
Celebrity Status
Ingrained
Even
If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.
Candace Owens
You
Natural
Black
Victim
Validity
Immediately
Status
Born
Blackness
Accept
Question
Then
Your
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
God
Great
Change
Before
Down
Believe
Else
Our
Status
Status Quo
Born
Never
No-One
Emphasize
Bow
Because
Were
Been
Grew
Quo
Ask
Lived
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
Carly Fiorina
Truth
You
Truth Is
Enemies
Challenge
Job
Leader
Status
Status Quo
Know
Make
Quo
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
You
Seen
Prisoner
Group
Defined
Rules
Definition
Member
Status
Part
Abuse
Reduced
Done
Means
Your
Whom
When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
People
Care
Introduced
Status
Status Quo
Obamacare
Knew
Economy
Democrats
Access
Conditions
Get
Quo
Transformed
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Preexisting
Working
Bill
Notion
Help
Million
Million People
Rejected
Needed
The diversity lottery program is a proven method of offering a path to legal permanent status for residents of African nations and other underrepresented regions seeking a better life here in the United States.
Cedric Richmond
Life
Legal
Better
Path
Diversity
Other
States
Status
Seeking
Better Life
Permanent
Proven
Method
Lottery
Offering
Nations
African
Regions
United
United States
Residents
Here
Program
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their sexuality or their gender or financial status.
Charlamagne tha God
Hate
Financial
Care
Somebody
Gender
Skin
Status
Sexuality
Color
Because
Discriminated
dont Care
Any
Being
Against
Prejudice
Level
I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.
Charles T. Canady
Good
Marriage
Oppose
Unions
States
Status
Able
Could
Proposition
How
Deny
Same-Sex
Anyone
Really
Should
Conscience
Imagine
I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.
Charlotte Casiraghi
Mother
Nothing
State
Status
Some
Exceptional
Head
Princess
Am
Very
Duties
Representational
Niece
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
Strength
Thoughts
World
Become
Nation
Past
Every
Independent
Citizens
Status
Individual
Develop
His
Modern
Wherein
Which
Modern World
Capable
Actions
Thing
Every Nation
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.
Chris Ofili
Success
You
Perception
Status
More
Overwhelm
Any
Aware
Elevated
Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.
Chris Squire
Work
Funny
Music
Me
People
Too Much
Legend
Nice
Think
Too
Funny Thing
Has-Been
Status
About
Given
Know
However
Been
Lot
Very
Personal
Personal Level
Being
Then
Much
Means
Thing
Level
Appreciated
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch
Lie
Ownership
Appropriation
Possessions
Status
New
Toys
Child
Use
Appeal
Appetite
Desire
Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.
Chuck Todd
Health
Job
Big
President
Minds
Status
Simply
Checking
Beyond
Gore
Cheney
Dick Cheney
Role
Vice
Vice President
Public
Should
Al
Al Gore
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
Clark Kerr
Status
Solution
Status Quo
Only
Quo
Cannot
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
Claude C. Hopkins
Time
Science
Status
Some
Come
Reached
Advertising
Hands
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll
Me
World
Power
World Wide Web
Status
Ability
Web
Give
Give Me
Merely
Does
Real
Nor
Any
The Real World
Real World
Page
Wide
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
Clive Thompson
Experience
People
Looking
Awareness
Thinking
Other
Status
About
Online
Small
Attention
Putting
Knowing
Messages
Doing
Ambient
Going
Paying
Stray
Lives
I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.
Craig Venter
Success
You
Science
Age
Determination
Think
Background
Status
Born
About
More
Economic
Had
Unusual
Scientist
Were
Motivation
Very
Than
Personal
Being
Where
Story
Success Is
Your
Planning
Usual
Shows
Route
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
Crispin Glover
Culture
Reflection
Right Thing
Considered
Status
Status Quo
Find
Promoting
Somehow
Like
Quo
The Right Thing
Uninteresting
Right
Thing
Things
Necessarily
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
Dan Webster
Best
Power
Own
Control
Status
Gives
Tends
Merely
Maintain
Protect
Principle
Policy
Sake
Up
Itself
Public
Creating
Public Policy
It's irresponsible to scare E.U. nationals in the U.K. by hinting that their status might change after Brexit.
Daniel Hannan
Change
Status
Scare
Irresponsible
After
Might
Brexit
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