Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
Peter Straub
AuthorityEventsQuestionQuestioning
I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.
Taika Waititi
LivePeopleUnderdogAuthorityPoor
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Sherrod Brown
PhoneAuthorityPresidentWithoutHe
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
Jim Lee
StyleAuthorityStorytellingReally
Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
Rachel Sklar
FamilyDareNewSayAuthorityRight
My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.
Scott Pruitt
JobMeWrongCongressAuthority
The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.
John Barrasso
HistoryAuthorityEPA
I don't run behind authority.
Naguib Sawiris
RunAuthorityBehind
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
PowerPeopleAuthorityResponsible
There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
PowerGovernmentResolutionAuthority
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
TruthAttentionAuthorityMattersUs
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
AuthorityDutyFirstCivicDistrust
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
John Ortberg
PoliceSometimesAuthorityCrimeWhy
I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
J. K. Simmons
AuthorityAbuseRespondWhoFigures
I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.
Nicolle Wallace
AmericanHouseWhiteDownAuthority
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
Robert Metcalfe
GoodPersuasionAuthorityResources
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell
PowerDemocracyAuthorityMilitary
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
Moshe Safdie
WorldPlanningDesignAuthorityMost
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
Matt Gonzalez
ThinkSomeoneAuthorityJudgesOut
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
TodayWorldLegalAuthorityWhole
I really rebel against authority.
Mariah Carey
RebelAuthorityAgainstReally
Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.
Michael Hayden
LawThinkYouMoralAuthorityOut
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
Martha Beck
MedicalPeopleAuthorityAfraid
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