Mirrors Quotes - Page 19

• I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Looks, Humans, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

  Henry Cavill

  Opportunity, Roles, Looking In The Mirror

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Nice, Believe, Reality

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

  Agnes Varda

  Self, Portraits, Tools

  Interview with Liza Bear, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Years, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

  Russell Wilson

  Persons, I Can

  "Russell Wilson Launches ‘Pass The Peace’ Campaign To Help Domestic Violence Victims" by Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2014.

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• When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Years, Looks

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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Data

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• The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Wall, Causes

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Different, Sacred Scripture, Way

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