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  • I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

    "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers, Camera Magazine, 1981.
  • Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

    Way   Honest   Accused  
    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

    Men   Safety   Soul  
    FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Nov 01, 2014
  • I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

    Men   Hands   Years  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.

    People   Fake   Groups  
  • Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

    Mother   Taken   Winning  
  • The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

    Source: legrandsoir.info
  • And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

    Hero   Political   World  
    Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, www.wikileaks.org. August 19, 2012.
  • No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness of their constitutional rights. No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, these rights.

  • I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

  • That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

    Memories   Mind   Crime  
  • After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

    Life   Distance   Father  
    Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan
  • As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.

    Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked, keeping her voice low. “The last time we were in this building, we accused the Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think we’ll be waiting long.

    Thinking   Voice   Long  
    Derek Landy (2009). “The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 3)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK
  • Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

    Guilt   Mouths   Coercion  
    "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.
  • I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.
  • In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

    Science   Europe   Ideas  
  • The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship. So they have to open the gates to any a**hole's opinion. It's like 'oh that opinion is valid'. No, it's not. Not all opinions are valid, you know? It's this idea that every kid gets a trophy. Yeah, but someone won the game!

    Kids   Games   Ideas  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with "X Factor" judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.

    Monday   Party   Home  
    Yvette Cooper during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. April 19, 2012.
  • Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  • Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

    Mean   Judging   Tvs  
    Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan
  • I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

    Names   Trying   Negative  
  • We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

    Lying   Criminals   Crime  
  • You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.

  • A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

    His Love   Lovers   Lost  
    Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK
  • To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

    Mean   Guilt   Innocence  
  • Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

    Hair   Age   Weight  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

  • I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

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