Unrepresentative Quotes

#1. To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

Antonin Scalia

#2. Modern ecumenism rightly began in mission, but then lapsed into a merger mentality, then defensive bureaucracy, and finally into unrepresentative forms of extreme politicization.

Thomas C. Oden

#3. A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Roy Jenkins

#4. A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Michael Lewis

#5. Pageview journalism treats people by what they appear to want - from data that is unrepresentative to say the least - and gives them this and only this until they have forgotten that there could be anything else. It takes the audience at their worst and makes them worse.

Ryan Holiday

#6. It is an unrepresentative city ... .They are so darn sure they are right on everything. The conventional wisdom in Manhattan, Bush believed, often failed to take opposing views into account except to dismiss such opinions as uninformed, prejudiced, and just plain wrong.

Jon Meacham

#7. Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

Mo Ibrahim

#8. The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with little difficulty. The point remains that people do not follow the correct rule, when left to their own devices.

Michael Lewis

#9. KEEP YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL! For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good - whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). 1 Peter 3:10

Joyce Meyer

#10. But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Robert Charles Wilson

#11. But Vegas is really my first home.

David Copperfield

#12. Jonas Haines of Broken Bird Marries Model Adriana Rivera in Vegas

Kristen Ashley

#13. I realized that making people feel irreplaceable was his gift.

Kelly Corrigan

#14. Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

Burt Reynolds

#15. Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Enrique Iglesias

#16. One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Women are one and all a set of vultures.

Petronius

#18. Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

H.L. Mencken

#19. Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

John Rosemond

#20. After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Earl Campbell

#21. Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Seth Godin

#22. I love being not cool.

Rufus Wainwright

#23. I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Lloyd Kaufman