Widespread Quotes

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(on the widespread unemployment of actors and their fear of it) The truth is I love the insecurity part of it, it keeps me on my toes. I think you become bland and predictable without the stress and angst. There`s a certain lethargy that sets in.

- Liam Neeson

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

- J.G. Ballard

There will definitely be some traffic from this worm this evening. But I don`t think there will be the widespread damage that`s predicted. I could be wrong. But I don`t think we`re going to see anything like we`ve heard about.

- David Perry

Stamps.com has taken a very simple need, postage, and leveraged the widespread adoption of the Internet to fulfill that need.

- John Payne

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

- Robert Trout

There is widespread sentiment against the death penalty in France, of course throughout Europe, and increasingly in other parts of the world, as well.

- Angela Davis

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, `How can you make a movie during an election that`s about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people`s lives?` To which my response was, `Well, I hope so.`

- John Sayles

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

- Sigmund Freud

It`s a very worrying figure but it confirms our information that use of cannabis is widespread among teenagers.

- Tom Wood

Although mobile spam is a relatively small problem compared with spam on fixed networks, unsolicited text or picture messages can exploit and offend mobile users. The widespread adoption of this code of practice will minimize these messages and reinforce the mobile industry`s reputation for providing secure and trusted services.

- Rob Conway

Motorola is set to exceed the program`s target of 12 million phones, proving that there is a huge appetite for mobile communications beyond the affluent markets traditionally served by this industry. The widespread availability of ultra-low cost handsets is bringing major social and economic benefits to people who have never before had access to information and communication technologies.

- Rob Conway

I`m tired of the FEMA-bashing. All you hear is that FEMA didn`t do enough. What people don`t understand is that FEMA had a game plan, but when the devastation was so widespread, their game plan kind of went out the window.

- Mark Bowden

There was widespread agreement in the council that it wasn`t appropriate to take a decision at this time,

- James Cunningham

The market has been pretty oversold and pessimism was and continues to be widespread, so the slight improvement in the economic data this morning and the fact that the Fed kept interest rates unchanged speaks to that pessimism for now. But tech continues to suffer, when other sectors are doing fine today (Thursday).

- Robert Phillips

The widespread financial difficulties being experienced by our citizens are a good indicator that the fair would not and should not be a top priority as individuals rebuild their lives,

- Don Thompson

It`s a very widespread perception that Gerry Connolly and the county are both at a crossroads. People need to feel like they are a full partner in that discussion.

- Charles Hall

Although this technology has been available for 40 years, it has been underutilized. I hope the service being launched here today will lead to increased awareness among consumers about the cost effectiveness, high performance levels and environmental benefits of NGVs, and ultimately lead to more widespread use of these vehicles.

- David Rodgers

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

- Douglas Hurd

The investor knows quite well that we don`t have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

- Aidan O'Rourke

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

- Alan Baratz

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn`t all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

- Alana Russo

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

- Alejandro Queral

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

- Alejandro Queral

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

- Alex Urquhart

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

- Alfredo Viegas

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

- Ali Lacey

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

- Alice Maria Gomes

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

- Alicia Hollowell

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

- Allan Walsh

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

- Alle Fister

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

- Allen Alley

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

- Allenstown Capt. Shaun Mulholland

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

- Amber Simmons

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

- Amy Fischer

Although we are not saying that torture is widespread in the UK at all, there are instances.

- Arthur Reingold

The use of corporate management of employee use of the Internet is widespread today. More than half of the Fortune 500 firms alone use our Web-filtering products.

- Aubrey Mackintosh

It`s rare that we get blindsided this way. In this era of Sarbanes-Oxley, governance is a front-burner issue. I just hope that the scandal doesn`t become more widespread.

- Barbara Blakeney

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.

- Thomas Sowell

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

- Anthony de Mello