#justifying

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#am #aspect #did #doing #drama

I'm tired of justifying what I've said. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#justifying #said #tired

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faith #gospel #justifying #naked #truths

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#becomes #difficult #exceed #expectations #fine

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#exist #existence #far #go #happens

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#citing #frankly #get #hear #i

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#end #greatness #high #justifying #manifested