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I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.
Elise Stefanik
Age
First
Congress
Run
Became
Representative
Decided
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Honesty
Characters
See
Something
Tendency
Come
Female
Female Characters
Male
Than
Representative
Just
Larger
Things
Funniest
I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.
Elizabeth Warren
Environmental
Rights
Financial
Congress
President
Obama
Threaten
Only
Pushing
Voted
Undermine
Trade
Halls
Deals
Michael
Representative
Currently
Against
Workers
Regulation
Who
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.
Ellen G. White
Attitude
Character
Christ
Will
Strike
Minister
He
His
Gestures
Representative
Beholder
Disgust
Regardless
Which
Should
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
Emma Bonino
Constitution
First
Only
Open
Step
Fair
First Step
Referendum
Discussion
Representative
Legitimacy
Granted
Drafting
I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
Fedor Emelianenko
Culture
People
Remember
Country
Think
About
Always
Am
Representative
Bringing
I heard I am one of the most representative bachelor actors of Korea with Kang Dong Won, So Ji Sub, and Hyun Bin.
Gong Yoo
Bachelor
Most
Korea
Am
Heard
Won
Representative
Bin
Actor
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
Gore Vidal
You
Harness
Must
Be Careful
Various
Forces
Get
Senator
Representative
Upset
Want
Anything
Which
Might
Elected
Need
Careful
I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.
Grace Meng
Seriously
Will
Job
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Definition
Above
Take
Beyond
Representative
Title
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read
Quality
Culture
Worth
Wealth
Power
Military
Philosophers
Valued
Civilization
Poets
Individuals
Terms
Material
Material Wealth
Representative
Artists
Achievements
Military Power
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Howard Mumford Jones
Speak
Thought
Honored
Par
William
Emerson
Potent
Excellence
Point
Point Of View
Writer
He
Still
His
Celebration
American
Died
Representative
James
Asked
View
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
Hugh Shelton
Life
Great
Opportunity
Honor
My Life
Marines
Our
Honored
Soldiers
Airmen
Lead
Greatest
Sailors
Been
Very
Representative
Who
Washington
Serve
Humbling
We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.
Ilhan Omar
Democracy
People
Constantly
About
Reminded
Talking
Representative
Tune
Need
What I always emphasize is that I am a representative who happens to be Somali.
Ilhan Omar
Somali
Emphasize
Always
Am
Representative
Happens
Who
Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring - representative, accountable governance.
Jamal Khashoggi
Marriage
Vision
Values
Spring
Everyone
Arab
Arab Spring
Neither
He
Knew
Ideologues
Governance
Impose
Were
Accountable
Dictator
Representative
Convenience
Want
Who
Fundamentalist
Cared
Core
Core Values
There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.
James Bovard
Government
Benefits
Better
Situation
Type
Rule
System
One-Man
Lot
Dictatorial
Than
Any
Representative
Far
I want - no, I need - to see images of black girls and femmes twerking, slaying and primping, just as much as I need to see Symone Sanders bopping her head and Representative Maxine Waters reclaiming her time.
Janet Mock
Time
Black
Girl
Waters
See
Head
Representative
Just
Just As Much
Want
Much
Her
Images
Need
'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.
Jason Aaron
Kinds
Like
Read
Representative
Stories
Watch
The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.
Jennifer Armintrout
Women
Girl
Beauty
Young
Chubby
Lawrence
Allowed
She
Because
Model
Role
Role Model
Representative
Conventional
Young Girls
Reason
Jennifer
Jennifer Lawrence
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
Joan Blades
Experience
Compile
Way
Members
Deliver
Real
Go
Person
Offices
Senator
Often
Representative
Staff
Connection
Petition
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
John Banner
Generation
Goodness
Kind
See
Some
Any
Representative
Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.
John Delaney
Democracy
States
Crisis
Representative
United
United States
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
John T. Flynn
Government
Result
Free
Our
Unless
Sector
System
Enterprise
Must
Free Enterprise
Drift
Only
Disappearance
Reverse
Gradual
Representative
Fascist
Extension
Present
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.
Jonathan Dee
You
People
Setting
Typical
See
Someone
Particular
She
Make
How
Subculture
Representative
Order
Want
Story
Interesting
Might
Who
Describe
Her
Portray
Bring
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
Jonathan Franzen
Hope
Family
People
Other
Gave
Finally
Way
Seemed
Weirdness
Doing
Up
American
Any
Representative
American Family
Anything
Actually
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
Josiah Warren
Wealth
Medium
Definite
Rational
Sound
Real
Representative
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