Representing Quotes

• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
  I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
  Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
  Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  Phife Dawg

  Music, Rap, Heart

  "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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• There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

  Louisa Lawson

  Women, Power, Feminist

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

  Wendy McElroy

  Believe, Voice, Voting

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• The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  Nate Berkus (2012). “The Things That Matter”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

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• Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

  Sonny Rollins

  Life, Music, Nature

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• It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

  Lucy Burns

  Freedom, Women, Rights

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• Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.

  Rukmini Devi Arundale

  Animal, Compassion, Agony

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• "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religious

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Country, Reality, Men

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

  Amy Tan

  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, Groups

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

  George M. Whitesides

  Reading, Simple, Errors

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• The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Winning, Simple

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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Money, Loss, Men

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Balance, President

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• It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

  Charles Kennedy

  Years, People, Age

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• I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

  Boy George

  Lgbt Community, Kind, Life Is

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• The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Evil

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

  Aristotle

  Men, Tragedy, Comedy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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