#presente

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. ↗

— Spike Lee

#being #color #constant #frustration #go

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#big #big deal #body #bothers #culture

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#concern #condition #convey #fear #fun

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#architecture #around #building #determines #get

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards. ↗

— Norman Granz

#artists #being #i #i do #i think

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world. ↗

— Adam Levine

#felt #i #little #misrepresented #world

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#also #band #blood #different #each