Representation Quotes - Page 18

• Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Jesus, Character, Sacrifice

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.350, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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• When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

  Shailene Woodley

  Self, America, Failing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.

  Richard A. Falk

  Turkeys, Ideas, Effectiveness

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.

  Thomas Friedman

  Average, Vintage, Income

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• Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster.

  Laura Bates

  Winning, Thinking, Progress

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• One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

  David Eagleman

  Mistake, Believe, Giving

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Black, Desire

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Littles, Wow, Fields

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

  George Saunders

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ambassadors, States, Said

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

  Miguel

  Perspective, Honest, Bigs

  Source: us.napster.com

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• Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Media, White, America

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Blood, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Artist, Self, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

  Roxane Gay

  Diversity, Stories, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

  Usher

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Issues

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Desire, Analysis

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• We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

  Roxane Gay

  Needs, Matter, Assuming

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Light, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.149

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• Any representation of God produces accordingly.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Produce

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.194, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Letters, Magnitude

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• And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
  I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
  For hours when all must fade like dew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Kissing, White

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.50, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

  Tony Hoagland

  Poetry, Literature, Mimesis

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• Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Order, Law

  Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.327, Routledge

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• What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Sam Levenson

  Should Have, Liberty, Taxation

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.103, Open Road Media

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