I want to make sure that I represent a variety of…

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he…

— Yukio Mishima

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise…

— Paul Strand

The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought…

— Tobias Dantzig

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents…

— Orlando Rodriguez

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening…

— Larry Page

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what…

— Gerhard Richter

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.…

— Beat Streuli

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

— Billy Graham

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

— Kathleen Battle

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be…

— Michael Eisner

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

— John Wimber

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

— Jenna Morasca

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko