Representing Quotes - Page 7

• I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

  Katy B

  Matter, Excited, Gender

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Doubt, Tribes

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

  Sue Grafton

  Children, Book, Color

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

  Jon Stewart

  Responsibility, Media, Political

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in Egypt, Iraq or Tunisia are not really representing Islam and Muslim people. Nowadays, political Islam is going through a crisis, however this crisis is necessary, for it will lead to a changing way of thinking. In order to make it out of this dead-end, reviewing political Islam becomes mandatory.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

  Snoop Dogg

  Two, Black, Violence

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Moving, Thinking, Office

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the easiest task. Learning to deal with the nerves and feeling the pressure of representing my country, all while wanting to achieve my own dreams, was a big obstacle to plow through.

  Tara Lipinski

  Dream, Country, Athlete

  "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

  Madeleine Albright

  Interesting, United States, Problem

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Always Trying, Community, African American

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• I'm not representing other people. I'm representing me.

  Donald Trump

  People

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I wasn't representing anybody but myself. I was representing only myself.

  Donald Trump

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

  Eden Robinson

  Balance, World, Artistic

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Jobs, Creating, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Struggle, Adversity, Artist

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The other theory of the case - and it`s not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people who share the Republican Party`s beliefs or conservative, but don`t like Donald Trump, is that he`s fundamentally a narcissist who has become addicted to the attention, is sort of compulsively driven by attention, and this has given him an outlet for that attention, and crucially doesn`t actually care about the party that he is nominally representing.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

  Ralph Nader

  I Like You, Issues, Labor Day

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Honestly, that puts a lot of weight on your shoulders because you're representing so many great people who want to see so much. And they're hungry for ... I hate to use the word change because [Barack] Obama used to use that word ... but they're hungry for real change; they're hungry for making things right.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Real, People

  Source: townhall.com

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• Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Environment, Needed, Humans

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

  Robert Irvine

  Our World, Food Culture, Tables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

  Collin Peterson

  Cities, Looks, Maps

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Belief, Motion Pictures

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Men, Air, People

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Party, Class

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• How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.

  David E. Cooper

  Garden, People, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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