#access

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #british #changed #days #ever

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#access #am #complete #complete freedom #favor

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #business #dedicated #devote #engineering

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. ↗

— David Bowie

#access #age #certain #certain age #coverage

I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#accurate #accurate information #grow #grow up #how

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. ↗

— John Poindexter

#access #activity #applies #audit #both

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. ↗

— John Shimkus

#benefit #cafta #corn #countries #exports

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.' ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#access #care #get #giving #medical

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time. ↗

— John Hockenberry

#america #disability #israel #wheelchair #architecture

She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me into town, smiling and teasing me, tickling me as she spoke with people on the sidewalks. When we got home, she'd trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door, and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I had done to displease her. I have one memory that catches in me like a nasty clump of blood. Marian was dead about two years, and my mother had a cluster of friends come over for afternoon drinks. For hours, the child was cooed over, smothered with red lipstick kisses, tidied up with tissues, then lipstick smacked again. I was suppose to be reading in my room, but I sat at the top of the stairs watching. My mother finally was handed the baby, and she cuddled it ferociously. Oh, how, wonderful it is to hold a baby again! Adora jiggled it on her knee, walked it around the rooms, whispered to it, and I looked down from above like a spiteful little god, the back of my hand placed against my face, imagining how it felt to be cheek to cheek with my mother. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#child #childhood-memory #dysfunctional-mother #human-accessory #jealousy