I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
There’s this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way.
In order to represent the state, you’ve got to be in the state.
The revolution is that we can be anything. We don’t have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people… I mean, what are you talking about? That’s not a character – that’s a polemic.
The women are at an advantage – we represent the buying power in this country.
I think if more designers designed clothes with a more fuller figure in mind, it would represent women in a greater sense.
I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.
I’ve failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
Singing songs that represent everything I am is just the best feeling in the world.
Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
South Jersey is home to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, one of the finest military installations in the world, and it was my honor to represent the base and all of those who serve there.
I’m really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I’m making both countries proud as WWE champion.
I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.
China and Hong Kong represent an enormous growth opportunity for McDonald’s.
Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn’t assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they’re largely the consequence of the mind’s attempt to make a rational decision.
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
One thing faith always did for me is it gave me perspective that, yeah, I was to maximize my gift and talents in the area of football, but it was always a means to glorify God and represent God.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
I represent the ‘Wonder Woman’ of the new world.
I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.
The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.
Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who’s married. It’s just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It’s an epidemic. You gotta represent!
To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it’s a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.
I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don’t care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.
Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can’t perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.
When you look at the number of satellites, what they’re doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.
I never dreamed I’d be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
A model is supposed to represent reality, and in reality, people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality, and colour.
Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China’s millions of women by going into space.
Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America’s growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.
Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
I’d rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don’t represent me at all.
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I’m qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I’m their voice.
I won’t say there aren’t any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
I’ve been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn’t represent every kids’ experience.
We want a clean and effective Olympic body where it can help us and Indian sports to grow and we athletes can represent our country and our flag once again.
I’ve always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I’ve set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.
A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it’s like to be a teenager.
We’ve never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind’s greatest political and social achievement.
Growing up biracial, I didn’t have someone to look up to watching TV or movies. Halle Berry was the closest one who looked like me. I’m happy to see more biracial people on screen, and I’m happy to represent for the little girls who didn’t have someone who looked like me on TV.
It’s an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
I’ve done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that – stuff I’m not ashamed of, but that doesn’t represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.
I think there’s some people that absolutely love attention, and I’m not necessarily one of those people, but we’re so, so lucky to be able to do this with our lives. There are certain aspects that maybe are not amazing, like having to represent us.
The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents’ voices are not heard: those that we represent.
