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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Body, Too Much

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• As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

  Meat Loaf

  Reflection, People, Vampire

  "What I see in the mirror: Meat Loaf". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

  Robert Anthony

  Thinking, Self, Agreement

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.142, Morgan James Publishing

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• The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  "Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 6), 1963.

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• I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Lovers

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• Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Snakes

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

  Naomi Watts

  Looks, Growing, Planning

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Children, Educational

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• When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Imperfection, Way, Gains

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64

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• Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Authenticity

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.49, Bantam

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• Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Eye, Vices, Looks

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• Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Soul, Body

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• If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Brave, May, Faces

  "Song: Why Are The Drums So Silent ("Sunshine, Dust and The Messenger")". 2002.

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• Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Children, Might, Helping

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• Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Use, Difficult Times, Resolution

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• There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it--and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Art, Men, Glasses

  Harold Clarke Goddard (1956). “The Meaning of Shakespeare”

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• The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes...and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He...appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too.

  Luci Swindoll

  Spiritual, Eye, Intimate Relationships

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• The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Moving, Past, Order

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• What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Taken, Class

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• Speech is the mirror of the mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Speech

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• Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• I read once that the voice is a mirror of our inner being. I can very much relate to that because, when you sing, you feel very exposed. You feel like you can’t hide anything. But then it also works the other way round and, when we work on our voice, our inner being also changes.

  Deva Premal

  Voice, Way, Like You

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• Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

  Rumi

  Real, Reflection, Love Is

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Icons, Growing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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