Representing Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Color, Different, Boxes

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• 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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• 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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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Crush, Good Life, Hate

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Men, Land, Diversity

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• Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Success, Truth, Compassion

  Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard

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• It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Two, Differences

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• But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Heart, Bird

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

  Karl Barth

  Gratitude, Jesus, Men

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.47, Westminster John Knox Press

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• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sadness, Triumph, Phases

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Future

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Jesus, Icons

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