#presented

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

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#alternative #get #now #people #represented

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. ↗

— Dick Morris

#against #break #civil #evenly #gay

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

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject. ↗

— James Otis

#another #appear #behalf #considered #i

If we are not represented, we are slaves. ↗

— James Otis

#slaves

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

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl. ↗

— Christopher Knight

#enemy #ever #get #girl #goat

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#haven #i #left #like #misrepresented