#represent

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#claim #copies #even #exclusive #paint

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#just #opinion #own #represent #someone

If we are not represented, we are slaves. ↗

— James Otis

#slaves

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex. ↗

— Molly Parker

#complex #conscious #good #how #i

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bringing #economic #liberty #no-win #obligations

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#constitution #exclusively #force #gives #only

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#form #in fact #language #musical #possible

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

#being #better #clearer #doing #feel