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«If I had won today and all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life. I am upset inside, but I'm not going to run around and be like a Dennis Rodman and head-butt an official.»
Author: Greg Norman
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
affect, butt, championships, Dennis, Dennis Rodman, official, run around, upset
«By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Censorship,
Discretion,
Speech
| Keywords:
censorship, chills, discretion, free speech, grant, license, official, placing, statute, threat
«Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.»
Author: James Knox Polk
(President)
| Keywords:
magistrate, measures, official, of necessity, pledged, President of
«If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.»
«[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.»
Author: Robert Moses
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architectural, asphalt, Bad Taste, conceit, hideous, inflicted, official, The Cathedral, waterfront
«An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports»
«All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
ideology, machines, official, political ideology, political institutions, political machine, popular song, Popular songs, repeating, stereotype, stereotyped
«DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose important function is to brand the Pope's bulls with the words _Datum Romae_. He enjoys a princely revenue and the friendship of God.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, official, princely, revenue, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, The Roman Catholic Church
«In the name of progress, our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
media, new media, official, work in progress
«At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intriguing, involve, official, scandals, sleepless, vigorous
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