Presenting Quotes

Who knows the psychology? But I do know that they're very particular about who they have, and I know that Mick personally approved us and wanted us I feel like I'm representing something positive by being asked, and what the band sort of stands for. - Emily Haines

Whilst we respect and revere freedom of speech, we condemn needless desecration and injury of Islamic sensibilities, such as the recent cartoons misrepresenting and vilifying my ancestor, the Prophet. - King Abdullah

While the acquisition price isn't cheap, we think this is a good move for St. Jude: it adds an entirely new business line and source of potential long-term growth. On a preliminary basis, we suspect ANSI could add about $180 million to St. Jude's revenues in 2006 -- bringing the total to nearly $3.4 billion, representing growth of just over 20 percent. - Phil Nalbone

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004. - Hugh Miller

While I am a student and I am representing their point of view, I had to look at fees from the long-term [perspective]. You want everything, but you have to pay. - Eric Hamilton

Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community. - Kenneth Miller

When you're representing your country, one thing you do is give it all you've got. After I got back [to Spring Training], I had a couple extra days off and didn't really play on the big field, but that's baseball. - Esteban Loaiza

When you're coming into something that is reasonably successful, the question always is, 'What are you going to do to make it more successful?' ... For me, it's just a question to find a way in which I can present material that I believe is relevant, and that there's a dialectic that begins to be created with the Seattle community. I mean, those are lofty ideas, but I think in presenting plays, there needs to be a combination of the plays that think [and] some understanding that theater should also be a place of pleasure and entertainment. - David Esbjornson

When you think of certain sounds and music representing certain communities, you can get into some pretty interesting critical commentary when you put music together. Serendipitously, these songs signify each other. - Wayne Marshall