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

  Sonny Rollins

  Life, Music, Nature

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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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• Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.

  Dennis Prager

  Roots, Hatred, Done

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• I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Suffering, Form, Novel

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• I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

  Joan Allen

  Thinking, People, Feels

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• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  Garet Garrett

  Law, President, Principles

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Years, Two

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• When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, Believe, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The rules that the United States introduce will be obviously be rules for the United States, but I'm very clear about the opportunities I expect everyone in the UK to have. I will be representing the interests of everyone in the UK on a whole range of things we will talk about.

  Theresa May

  Opportunity, United States, Introducing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Age

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

  David Duke

  Believe, People, Congress

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• [John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Independent, Order, Two

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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