#fend

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#briefing #countless #defending #hours #house

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#claim #confucius #did #god #jesus

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#audience #back #came #davis #entertain

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#beliefs #defend #injustice #make #mistake

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. ↗

— George McGovern

#combat #defended #europe #factories #flew

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#defend #different #express #fact #i

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#defends #everything #except #his #ignorant

We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#also #country #create #defend #economy

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#equal opportunity #i #like #myself #offender