I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I'm always talking about how representation is such an important thing - it's not just a request, it's a requirement - it… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale,… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
There's no representation. That's why the NBA Players Association was formed, players' unions were formed. That's why those unions were formed -… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped - a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it,… — Judy Fiskin Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it… — John Bright Copy Share Image
![“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)” quote by Neil Postman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03a/neil-postman-1598_entertaining_it-is-not-that-television-is-entertainin_296760.jpg)
![“It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and…” quote by Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/michel-de-certeau-15812_blindness_it-is-as-though-the-practices-organizing_1209841.jpg)
![“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/virginia-woolf-49_female-friendship_and-i-tried-to-remember-any-case-in-the_1532397.jpg)
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