#advocate

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#angel #because #drink #drinking #grass

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#along #am #bearing #being #burden

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. ↗

— John Updike

#advocate #blind #client #president #sir

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#continue #distribution #economy #establish #federal

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#been #both #greater #i #life

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#almost #anything #been #compromising #disgusting

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#contribution #for the people #i #make #money

I'm a very big public school advocate. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#big #i #public #public school #school

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#lawyers #more #own #positions #state