Caricatures Quotes - Page 6

• Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Voice, Annoyed, Syntax

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• You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.

  Amanda Hocking

  Men, Guy, Fortune Cookie

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

  Jason Kenney

  Government, Negativity, Easy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Philosophy, Men, Pedants

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.

  Max Wertheimer

  Fall, Science, Men

  Max Wertheimer, Lothar Spillmann (2012). “On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization”, p.262, MIT Press

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• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Attitude, Names

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• The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Waiting, Challenges, Rewards

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• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Battle

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• The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of my access. And it was a very negative caricature. There's this propensity for blaming a woman. It comes down to implicit bias. There are so many studies that show this.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jealous, Media, Negative

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

  Jeff Sessions

  Real, Support, Effort

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

  Caroline Knapp

  Anorexia, Cartoon, Flesh

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• I certainly thought of who [Tony from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was. He was so different from anyone I've played. And it was so important for me and Macon [Blair] - this was on the page too - to not make a caricature. There's a version of Tony that I think could be heightened.

  Elijah Wood

  Home, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Foxes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

  Barry Blitt

  Unique, Expression, Cartoon

  "Cartoonist Takes On the Sketchiest President Yet". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2017.

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• Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, People, Trying

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

  Dale Jamieson

  Men, Historical, Paper

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

  Danny Glover

  Creating, Cinema, Today

  Source: progressive.org

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• When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Character, Night, Saturday

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

  Rolf Harris

  Self, Portraits, Draws

  "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

  Caroline Polachek

  Feelings, Looks, Inspired

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Believe, Thinking, Shoes

  "Isabelle by Isabelle". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2016.

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