#opposed

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. ↗

— John Sweeney

#bush #bush administration #legislation #opposed #overtime

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ↗

— Paul Auster

#always #audience #book #books #encountering

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#country #every #lot #olympics #opposed

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #approach #armenian #armenian genocide #confirmed

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#also #am #aware #business #commercially

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#country #day #i #majority #opposed

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not. ↗

— Adam Ant

#greatest #greatest thing #happened #into #just

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#becoming #decided #follow #girlfriend #given

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#behavior #i #law #laws #opposed