Representation Quotes - Page 15

• We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

  Shawn Amos

  Who We Are, Facts, Mere

  "Business Is Nothing But the Blues" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

  Immanuel Kant

  Beautiful, Art, Doe

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Errors, People

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• Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Depiction

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, People, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style experimentations tethered to literary movements (formalism, deconstruction, modernism, and postmodernism), and the basic principal of breaking every rule I ever learned from a patriarchal writing tradition that never included my body or experience, and thus has nothing to offer me in terms of representation.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Choices, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United States do not do that, and for good reason. We need a careful process for admissions that take all sorts of factors into account: different intellectual strengths, artistic expression, economic standing, social background, ethnicity, regional representation and designs a class as a balanced whole.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Expression, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Opposites, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm such a product of my media diet... it's interesting that you say what I do is observational. It's observational as far as it goes - to the extent that I observe media closely. Kriota might have a better sense of this. I don't always have the best sense of how human nature works, but I certainly know how to dismantle representations of characters.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Character, Media, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Representing the struggle that Muslim minorities go through today is something I personally experience. So I know that at the end of the day, I have a voice for many millions of people who don't have any representation at all.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Struggle, Voice, People

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• When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Thinking, Color

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.

  Amy Ray

  Teacher, Kids, Gay

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• I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Brain, Answers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Thinking, Quality

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

  Robert Orben

  Taxation Without Representation, Might, Wonder

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• Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Dog, Ecosystems, Littles

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities.

  Laverne Cox

  Beautiful, Media, Two

  lavernecox.tumblr.com. June 2, 2015.

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• The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Mind, Danger

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• We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Romance, Facts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• I am committed to creating a vision of the world that reflects how I believe it is: diverse. It is not an effort to diversify media representation, but rather, it comes out of the world I have grown up in.

  Jennifer Phang

  Believe, Media, Creating

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

  Bat for Lashes

  Men, Interesting, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Romance, Trying

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Reality, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.

  Kether Donohue

  Beautiful, Real, Unique

  "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.

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• For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the studio in fact. From these files I can quite often tell what kind of set up made the tracks. For the music lover in me, vinyl is more woosey, richer, more alive, more real, more imperfect and somehow becoming more like life itself. But I don't prefer it per se. The mastering engineer in me always loves to hear it as it was made.

  Chris McCormack

  Real, Giving, Track

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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