Guardrails Quotes

• For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It seems to show up there most clearly. They had a helmet law for motorcycles in California and the bikies were saying things like, "It restricts my vision. I can't hear what my bike's doing. If it was on fire I wouldn't know it until my ass caught." And at the bottom line what the bikies were saying was, "Look, it's my goddamn head and if I want to splatter my brains all over the guardrails on the Coast Highway, super for me."

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  Stephen King

  Struggle   California   Fire  

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• Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

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  Howard Schultz

  Categories   Starbucks   Brands  

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• There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically... I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous.

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  Stephen Shore

  Photography   Art   Creativity  

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• I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.

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  Alonzo Bodden

  Men   Car   Asian  

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• Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

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  Michael J. Fox

  Life Is Good   Thinking   Mountain  

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• Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

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  Stephen Nichols

  Safe   Creeds   Guardrails  

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• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

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  Barack Obama

  America   President   Branches  

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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