To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
I’ve stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district… a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
I’m very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we’re seeing different types of people on screen.
I’m extremely proud I was born and raised in the Bay Area and loved representing Oakland. I started recording in the Bay Area and worked with a lot of different producers. But I always wanted to collaborate with different writers and get different perspectives.
What I really want is consistency – to keep working, for God to keep blessing me with all the amazing people in my life, to keep making good music, and to keep representing females out there.
When it comes to representing the WWE, I don’t like calling myself the ‘face of WWE’ because we have so many faces and so many superstars. We are a team, we’re a roster, and we’re a locker room. It absolutely takes every man to make this ship sail.
What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
With novels, you’re representing things. You’re not explaining.
For the longest time, the state discourse in Singapore has eschewed any reference to welfare. Similarly, the state has tended to place meritocracy on a pedestal. Political leadership has tended to frame both issues in the extreme, with welfare representing the bad, and meritocracy representing the good.
Representing the people is not something ‘our’ representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.
I know I’m representing a group – black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with – and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that’s really important for our youth to see.
I take some pride in… representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.
Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.
All I have to do is to do my thing. I don’t have to talk about it like, ‘Oh, I’m representing for Asians.’ I’m just… doing it.
A plastic bag charge is far from representing mere climate change symbolism. It is a clarion call to us all to alter social norms equally if not more importantly reduce the amount of waste we generate.
Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they’re representing . And you want those voices heard.
I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.
We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.
I am representing here – the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
My job is to make the case that I’ll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia’s Sixth District, and what they want is representation that’s focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.
Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great – far too great – expectations.
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals.
I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I’m here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.
Helen Zille, formidable leader of the Democratic Alliance, routinely vilified as representing white interests only, is trying to make sure everyone knows that the case against Zuma is strong and is trying to have it investigated in a judicial review.
CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
It’s just an amazing feeling to know that I’m representing for every plus-size woman out there.
I’ve shown throughout my career that I have always put representing my state and country first and foremost. I love what I do.
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It’s cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims’ homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.
Today’s cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world’s total.
A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, ‘As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.’
Obviously representing your country, having U.S.A. on your chest is one of the most important things you can do to give back to your country.
I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.
Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I’m doing, but I don’t see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.
Captain Britain is not about representing an empire, he’s about standing up for everyone and fighting for the betterment of all.
Currently, I’m working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We’re currently representing over 30 fighters.
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
I love my body. I love representing people who aren’t stick figures, because people aren’t.
Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I’m drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they’re representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we’re most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character.
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight’s not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
I love representing WWE, like, with Make-A-Wish, Be a STAR, Special Olympics.
For 20 years I’ve had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe… first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn’t there.
I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.
My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, ‘Thank you for representing us,’ and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that’s been amazing.
