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• And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

  John Frusciante

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

  John Grisham

  People, Criminals, Adequate

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• You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

  Diablo Cody

  Opportunity, Play, Perspective

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• The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Jobs, Military

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• I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

  Andrew Greeley

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Glowing, Males, Female

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• I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Littles, Kingdoms, Tiny

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• I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Fake People, Color, Use

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• In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1964). “Complete Works: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation”

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• I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

  Lucy Stone

  Suffering, Taxation, Bills

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• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

  Answers, Revolution, Absurd

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• Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.

  Lewis Baltz

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

  R. J. Palacio

  Spiritual, Believe, Goodness

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.307, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.

  Norman Buckley

  Powerful, Liars, Character

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• Anything can be painted without representation.

  Agnes Martin

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

  Tom Vilsack

  America, Political, Half

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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• Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Purpose, Tongue

  Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.72

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• We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

  John Cale

  Ideas, Trying, Records

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• In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Style, Finals

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Completion does not depend on
  material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

  Robert Henri

  Special, Doe, Done

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

  Edward Tufte

  Style, Cartoon, Tools

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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