Quotes with represent

  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
  • Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
  • If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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  • Junot Diaz I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Carol Gilligan ... while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Adolph Green As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Bruce Johnston But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bruce Sutter I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Francis Bacon It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bill Haslam My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Ben Affleck Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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