Mirrors Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

  William Kittredge

  Stories, Use

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

  Shirley Temple

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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 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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• 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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• Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

  Yoko Ono

  Giving, Meals, Looks

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Feb 25, 2014

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• Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.

  Karen Kingston

  Home, Opportunity, Self

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.14, Harmony

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• A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

  Linda Wisdom

  Breakup, Hurt, Broken

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• What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

  Lou Doillon

  Desire, Sides, Glitter

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• I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature

  Jade Puget

  Nice, Rivers, Wyoming

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• I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

  Luke Mably

  Vampire, Heavy Metal, Pretending

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• Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating.

  Nita Leland

  Different, Looks, Halls

  Nita Leland (2011). “New Creative Collage Techniques: A step-by-step guide to making original art using paper, color and texture [blurb] 60 projects 62 artists”, p.151, F+W Media, Inc.

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• If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if you try to do it in a way that doesn't hurt too many people, then you probably can get out of bed in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror.

  James McBride

  Hurt, Morning, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Sky, Tunes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

  Bruce Lee

  Over You, Self Evaluation, Discovering Yourself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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• Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

  Liam Gallagher

  Looks, Cassius Clay, Fugitive

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