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I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.
In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.
I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net.
Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.
I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed.
Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.
Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.
Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.
In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.
Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.
Long before 2020, many Americans were in the position of patching their own safety net and acting as their own city hall.
Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.
What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.
If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and invested to hone your skills.
You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.
I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do you do if you've got a sick child?
If there is any state that typifies prototypical 'Murica' where the trucks and the guns are big and the social safety net is oh so small, it's Texas.
Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.
I didn't have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely.
We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.
I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.
Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.
I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than in any other wealthy country.
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.
Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.
Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.
At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
I completely disagree with Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute on the need for dignity in the marketplace instead of the social safety net, but he is a very persuasive character.
Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net.