Proxy Quotes
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.
I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.
And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."
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.
Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes.
Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.
