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He's very good at portraying the conventional wisdom: that as long as we balance the budget, everything's OK. The real [question] should be, what do we do to fix the size of government?

Dan Mitchell

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

Lamont Jordan

I don't want to portray myself as a hard man in management or anything like that.

Stuart Pearce

Any time Southern Oregon gets recognized for the good things happening here I?m pleased. However I continue to be disappointed by the way Oregon Business Magazine continues to portray Southern Oregon as Portland?s country cousin.

Brad Hicks

I wasn't really portraying a columnist, but a heel. Otherwise I'd have spent time in newspaper offices, studying the characterization. No, I just played a heel who happened to be a columnist.

Burt Lancaster

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Darry Sragow

Are there going to be love scenes in it? How do you portray it correctly? It has to be done with some reverence.

Lee Ielpi

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne

I think it's a little bit the image the people behind him want him to portray. It could be part of the problem.

Sarah Lewis

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

I like to portray myself as somebody that's likable and approachable. I'm not saying he's not. Bode is very intelligent. He just needs to learn how to use the intelligence in a better way.

Steve Nyman

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

Albert Bandura

They still want to portray themselves as a normal democracy, ... I don't think anybody will be fooled. The crisis continues, even if they pay off the IMF.

Lovemore Madhuku

Kids like Tyler come around only once in a generation. I thank God every day for this little kid being on our show because some kids have it, some kids don't. ... It's not about being a little adult, it's about being a kid and portraying a kid, and I think that America gets it when he does it.

Terry Crews

They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

Dawn Ostroff

ABC, NBC, CBS can portray graphic sex from 9 to 11 p.m., but they won't air anything with profane language and our brand of violence. I guess the other is okay, because audiences know it's not real, that it's fantasy. Our show is not fantasy. It's real.

Luke Macfarlane

I'm young and fresh at this, but I'd like to portray myself as somebody that's likable, approachable. I'm not saying that he's not. Bode is very intelligent. He's a smart guy. He just needs to know how to use his intelligence in a better way. I learned a lot from him.

Steve Nyman

The media is portraying them as hard-core, gang member criminals, and they're not that.

Sonya Smith

He is essentially equating Indian tribes as special interests along the lines of trial lawyers and the pharmaceutical industry. We're part of the fabric of American government, derived from the U.S. Constitution, and he's trying to negate that history and portray us as a special interest, which is very insulting.

Michael Chapman

The anonymity of cyber space compels even the prominent to portray inconceivable personas to achieve a satisfying result.

Mike Ishee

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Geoff Luebkemann

China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power.

Brad Adams

We maintain that we can do a better job of accurately portraying what's going on in a courtroom if we can use the best tools available to us.

Steve Scott

There is absolutely no one else who could better portray the warmth and sense of fun, but also the English-ness of Eloise's Nanny than Julie Andrews.

Quinn Taylor

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Mount Vernon is a good team and their record really doesn't dictate or portray what they're all about.

Kami Roeder

There are some traditions that do not use art at all, with a belief that it is impossible to portray Jesus at all. And there are traditions, especially the Orthodox Church, that say he had to be visible if he was human and portraying him that way affirms the incarnation.

Robin Jensen

We don't portray just the Texan side. There were people from all nationalities that participate in this campaign.

Jerry Hopkins

To portray Jesus as a terrorist is extremely offensive to Muslims everywhere. Yeah, there's something called freedom of speech, but at least have a little bit of respect.

Hussain Shihab

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

Kate Bosworth

I was really pleased seeing how far they have come this year. The poise and the coolness they portray on the court when it gets close is just great.

Lori Drumtra

The house could have been ransacked to divert police attention and to portray as if the cause of the murder was robbery.

Anil Shukla

I was above all drawn to the opportunity to intimately portray female characters. Up until then my films revolved around male characters plunged into conflict and war.

Danis Tanovic

One thing I was pleased to see is that they did not portray the women that were diagnosed as pitiful victims that look like death. I was glad to see that for the most part they kept up with their lives.

Stacey Hallahan

It's a huge undertaking to try to portray. That's such a delicate subject that's still fresh on everyone's mind.

Derek Jones

Louise told me that she'd never stay through another hurricane and she said that the debris formed about a 10 foot barrier between their building and the water. Louise said that Hollywood could never portray a disaster as bad as this one.

Evelyn Coleman

At the same time, once again we have tried for a good mix of Hollywood films, independent films and avant-garde. Ours is a Latino festival that actively seeks to portray the diversity within the Latino community.

Ethan Van Thillo

Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I love Elisabeth so much, but I got to be nice with her in this movie. That's what I like about doing movies because you get to do things and portray characters that you would never do or be like in your real life, ever.

Elisabeth Shue

The selection of these actors portraying foul-mouthed, drug-using, petty criminals as representative of East Coast music is ludicrous at best and an insult to every music-loving Canadian in general, and East Coasters in particular.

Edward Marsh

There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and that forces you to assume the worst every time.

Ed Amoroso