#entities

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it. ↗

— Vince Cable

#corporate #entities #flagrant #must #seek

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security. ↗

— Andrew Card

#federal #federal government #government #homeland #homeland security

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. ↗

— Spike Lee

#black #brought #comes #define #down

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #campaign #democrat #described #eager

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#although #brand #common #common interests #entities

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#constructed #deal #fame #hearsay #histories

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#compete #extreme #find #games #go

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each