For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything – which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.
When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.
Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn’t push you to do better.
I learned analytics. It’s a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
I’d never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it’s really fun for them.
It is difficult to touch hearts than mind, because in the mind you do have some reference point.
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I’m still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.
When I watch films and it becomes just about the reference and not necessarily a flow with how people naturally speak, that’s when you’re just saying, ‘Okay, I’m trying to be cool and show off.’
God’s will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
I definitely post a lot of memes and content that’s isolated to Twitter that I wouldn’t be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn’t have that same frame of reference.
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
I have always worn the No.10 shirt when I played at lower levels and, obviously, my reference point was always Pele and then Ronaldinho.
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to ‘perfidious Jews’ from the Good Friday liturgy in 1960.
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can’t write, and I can’t write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I’d have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I’ve always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.
I love those moments in any movie or film where there’s a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.
I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don’t ever have to reference me because, I’d like to believe as an educator, I’m empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
A Christmas Carol’ is one of a few literary works that can be cited as a common cultural reference point, so its a text people imagine theyve read without having done so.
I want to win all the titles, be a reference for the team and for the fans, and I want to live my story at Real Madrid.
I used ‘Saved by the Bell: The College Years’ as my reference point really for my ‘Fresh Meat’ experience.
Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can’t be real.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn’t consider him an influence because I’d already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot.
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
I’d like to do a record that doesn’t even reference actual places. Because I think it’s kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn’t have to be taken so literally.
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
I’ve never seen ‘Friends;’ I’ve never seen ‘Seinfeld.’ I’ve heard people reference these things but I’ve never seen them.
I’ve never really thought I’d get married. It’s not that I’m suspicious of it or anything like that, it’s just that I don’t have a reference for it because my mum wasn’t.
Drag went from being referential to being the reference, which is crazy.
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that’s always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.
Hemingway’s minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn’t realize they were supposed to have imagined.
I’m a huge fan of ‘Heart On My Sleeve’ – I think it has a ‘Take That’ feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a ‘Greatest Day’/’Rule The World’ sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can’t ad lib. It’s much more fun to be looser and say things like, ‘Can I work in a Han Solo reference?’ I’m a ‘Star Wars’ freak.
The people I tend to look to and reference are Hollywood icons; Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth.
Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group.
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on ‘Wine Library TV’ tomorrow. Monday’s episode is always the best, because it’s hot off the press.
Every team has a person who is used as a reference, a player who stands out more than others.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It’s not a question of stupidity. It’s that they don’t want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son – we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
The construction of ‘Sekiro”s world is based on that of traditional Sengoku, or medieval Japan. To that end, we made sure to reference a lot of written materials on that period as well as actually visit several locations.
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
If someone says to me that ‘Horizon’ is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, ‘No, that’s not right.’ But I’m not interested in unpicking my music for people. Everybody has different reference points.
