Mirrors Quotes - Page 18

• The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

  Edward Tenner

  Mean, Dimensions, Sound

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• Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.

  Ian Tattersall

  Imagination, One Day, Looks

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• What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Character, Order, Soul

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• The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Self, Rose, Perception

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.66, Basic Books

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• If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.

  Val Kilmer

  Challenges, Trying, Tasks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Country, Rights, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sky, Numbers, Infinity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

  Shirley Temple

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• Once a day you should look into the mirror to see if what stands between you and happiness isn't you.

  Edward Somers

  Looks, Should, Ifs

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• Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moments, Status Quo, Situation

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Wells

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• Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

  Christopher Plummer

  Looks, Were Meant To Be, Sometimes

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• It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

  Jessica Simpson

  Believe, Looks, Made

  "Jessica Simpson: 'I'm in a Great Place in My Life'". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2009.

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• I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

  Mark Leibovich

  Giving, Shining, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.

  Michael McKean

  Morning, Real, Character

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Mind, Landscape

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

  Ted Alexandro

  Firsts

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

  Claudia Rankine

  Writing, Thinking, Reader

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Thinking, Talking, Interviews

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 2010.

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• I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.

  Beth Orton

  Fall, Sky, Tree

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, World, Speak

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• Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  People, Kind, Casts

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• The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Men, Forgiving, Enemy

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