Not Being Represented Quotes

#1. When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

David Gregory

#2. People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Spike Lee

#3. When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#4. These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

DeVon Franklin

#6. And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

Jessica Pare

#7. If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.

Henry Kissinger

#8. You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

Thalia

#9. In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

Andy Serkis

#10. Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

Kristin Davis

#11. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.

John Cena

#12. 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

#13. Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#14. The energies represented by the four # elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with # astrology

Stephen Arroyo

#15. As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me
and this is in retrospect
that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.

Jean Liedloff

#16. I fell in love with you in a blink of an eye, Ava. You represented everything I could ever want and the one thing I was most terrified to ask for. The power of what I was feeling scared me to my very core and made me love you and hate myself for being the wrong man for you

Diana T. Scott

#17. I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

Lance Mountain

#18. The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.

Arthur Koestler

#19. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

#20. People on the right say to people like me, Oh, you hate America. And I always say, No, I love America. I want it back. I don't want you representing it. I don't want torture representing it. If I hated it, I'd be okay with being represented by the torturers.

Bill Maher

#21. Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

William Shenstone

#22. Your life is truly yours when you trust yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.

Donald Trump

#24. What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.

Samuel Insull

#25. Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

Asa Hutchinson

#26. I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Carol Moseley Braun

#27. I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

Ford Madox Ford

#28. Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Angelina Grimke

#29. The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

Steven Van Zandt

#30. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

Aeriel Miranda