#allowed

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#came #computers #earth #elements #forget

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#already #during #expected #high #high schools

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#always #boy #come #day #days

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#completely #digitally #electronic #electronic music #extend

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#allowed #beat #brick #desire #head

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ↗

— Auguste Comte

#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#allowed #away #because #cheap #crew

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. ↗

— John Cornyn

#american #american people #certainly #compulsory #congress