Representations Quotes

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Because having your story told, as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian or as a trans person, or as any member… — Kerry Washington
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation;… — Marvin Minsky
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are… — Frederick Lenz
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a… — Willard Gaylin
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… — Augustus De Morgan
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true."… — Bill Nighy
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The… — Plato
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. — Ben Shahn
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my… — William Hogarth
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under… — Theodore Roosevelt
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a… — S I Hayakawa
In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of… — Steve Winwood
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. — Junot Diaz
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes… — Junot Diaz
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not… — Tony Kushner
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. — Franz Liszt
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur

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