Quotes About Representation

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand. On the contrary, however, the usual way now is for the whites to work out their plans behind closed doors, have them approved by a few Negroes serving nominally on a board, and then employ a white or mixed staff to carry out their program.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or dragons, or eagles.

There is no such thing as Negro dialect, except in literature and drama.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

deserved a voice?

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at—not copy it.

Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The image of God cut in ebony.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.