Proxy Quotes

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

When you are talking to Dick Cheney, you are talking to me.

Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.

American democracy has never accorded all the people a meaningful voice. The masses have been given symbols instead, and they are often empty symbols. Nation-states traditionally rely on the fiction that a head of state can represent the body of the people and stand in as their proxy; in the American version, the president must appeal broadly to shared values that mask the existence of deep class divisions. Even when this strategy works, though, unity comes at the price of perpetuating ideological deception.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Rather than the President telling someone to do something, I'll tell the guy. If he wants to find out something from somebody, I'll do it.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

You don't know a thing about me

They exercise it by proxy, as we all know. Females send their votes to the ballot box by their husbands or other male friends.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

I've done plenty of phoners for Joel when he's been too busy. You'll never know. Our voices sound so similar.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.