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Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.
Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.
I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.
Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.
I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.
I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.
It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Don't simply insist that the American future will be bright if we vote for you and damned if you don't; explain how and why. We deserve the truth, and we can handle it.
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.