Quotes of: Legitimate Keyword

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

Jessica Hagedorn

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.

Joe Henderson

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

HBO spent a huge amount of money on 'Game Of Thrones,' and it won't be able to keep spending the money if it can't make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.

Joe Dempsie

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

Hamid Karzai

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

Robert Bork

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

Greg Graffin

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

Varg Vikernes

Sexism occurs when we assume that some people are less valid or natural than others because of their sex, gender, or sexuality; it occurs when we project our own expectations and assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality onto other people, and pol...

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

The Black Banner

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

On Being a Christian

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.

JR

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

The Honourable Schoolboy

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Paris in Love

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

A Theology of Liberation