Top 1200 Breaking Down Barriers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

I want barriers to be broken down for women.

There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.

That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down.

It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.

The physical nature of the Globe is going to break down a lot of barriers.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

My future was planned before my birth. I was supposed to get married or be involved in the family business. But I was all about breaking barriers and started thinking out of the box when I was 13-14 years old. Finally, at 17, I floated my own Microfinance Institution (MFI) called Svatantra.

The great thing with comedy is that I don't memorize ahead of time like I did on 'Breaking Bad.' With 'Breaking Bad,' I wanted to know those words inside and out, really have my lines down so I could say them verbatim. But with comedy, you keep it a lot more loose.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

I want to break down barriers in boxing.

We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.

People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation. That's definitely not something I had as a kid. I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics. I think if I had, it would've made it easier for me.

Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

For a long time, the women of WWE have been waiting for moments to break down barriers.

This body is breaking down, but I am not.

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

I am hoping that by breaking barriers myself, I can inspire a whole new generation of people to think 'you know what, maybe I can, not just run a country, maybe I could start a company, maybe I could do something in my own local community to make a positive change.'

Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are talking about. But when you're in the upper echelon of the 1 percent - even though it's certainly a more white demographic overall - there are fewer barriers.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

If we are going to create the future, then we must break down the barriers that are holding us back from our full potential.

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.