I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.
When people listen to music, they don’t worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone’s an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
Listen, I’m always going to defend my character, even when she’s doing something that I don’t approve of, because that’s what you have to do to love them and play them.
And I’m asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I’ve said before, from becoming a socialist nation.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
Japan’s own efforts to defend its own country are also effective in defense cooperation with the United States.
It’s simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what’s going on.
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
I defend my players and coaches.
We need to defend the fruits of our land.
When I was sworn into office, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and I take that responsibility very seriously.
I’ll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.
Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.
Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to America. I understand those people. I’m not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.
As I always say, the fundamental thing in football is to defend as well as attack. And to attack well means that the forwards must first help to defend. That’s where the work begins.
I believe in the right to defend yourself.
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
Powerful messages that defend life and celebrate true heroines can’t be contained, not even by the best efforts of some of the most powerful liberals on the planet.
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.
When you’ve got so many guys that can score the ball, you really don’t want to get down and defend. You really don’t want to get down and dive for balls. You really don’t want to fight through screens every play.
There are a lot of teams that don’t want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We’re always looking for the open space. A lot of times we’ll face six defenders and four midfielders.
It’s the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.
For me, what makes Liverpool special is that they are a team that works very well on the lines, very compact, in which everyone attacks and defends.
When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it’s important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
If we are quite defensive and we lose the ball, we just try to get back into our positions and try to defend. That’s something you have to do from time to time.
In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.
We must defend our NATO allies, but we should also ensure that everyone pays their fair share. The United States shouldn’t be responsible for funding other countries’ shares.
It’s easy to defend, in my opinion, when you play one-on-one.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
To be influential in tomorrow’s world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.
We constantly abuse and defend a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.
The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It’s for a street-fight situation.
You mostly defend with your head, always reacting to the movement of opponents and teammates. I had to become more aware of that, play with much more consideration, the way you drive a car: you always need to look left, right, and the rear mirror to see what’s going on around you.
I do not like the Confederate flag. It excludes me, profoundly. And if many good people fought honorably to defend it, I still experience the sight of it as a little racial aggression against me.
It is ironic that so many politicians claim to defend traditional Christian values of ‘faith and family.’ In fact, a radical antifamily ideology permeates Christ’s teaching, and the early Christian tradition often set faith and family against each other.
Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.
If you’ve written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you’ve got to defend it.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
There has to be a very good balance between being aggressive and then being able to defend as well.
This isn’t about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.
Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
Buying insurance is no one’s idea of fun. And it’s especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.
The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.
No one in ‘Banshee’ has small opinions. They have strong beliefs, and they will defend them ferociously. Having that element in the show just adds another level. It’s another avenue for story, and it enriches the world.
As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits.
There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.
In the 21st century, our adversaries will continue to use cyberattacks against us. We need to be prepared to defend our networks against this growing threat to our democracy, especially the most fundamental part of our political system: our elections.
The thing about me is, I don’t care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person’s faith.
It’s the referee’s job to stop the fight. I’m in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.
I’d take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what’s going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there’s always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.
