#presents

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

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This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed. ↗

— Marlin Fitzwater

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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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