Representation Quotes

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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the… — Peter Straub
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. — Albert Einstein
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,… — Alexander MacLaren
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects… — Samuel Adams
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the… — Alexander Hamilton
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation — Frank Herbert
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I… — Daniel Libeskind
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So… — Rene Magritte
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its… — Fredric Jameson
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and… — George Saunders
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been… — Plato
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the… — John Roberts
There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation. — Bill Stone
I plan to stand up and be counted. And the thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna do what we're gonna do right now. I'm… — Paul Eggers
You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict.… — Kat Von D
It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their… — Joel McHale
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not knowâ€”that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating… — Daniel Gilbert
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront… — Seamus Heaney
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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