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Quotes About Representation

Any string of symbols that can be given an abbreviated representation is called algorithmically compressible.
~ John D. Barrow
A PRESIDENT WEARS MASKS
~ John Dickerson
An earlier image in which Theoklia and Paul were equally authoritative apostolic figures has been replaced by one in which the male is apostolic and authoritative and the female is blinded and silenced.
~ John Dominic Crossan
The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.
~ John Dominic Crossan
The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight.
~ John Dryden
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
~ Dick Gephardt
We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
~ Katherine Parkinson
I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.
~ Mia Love
I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.
~ Oscar Micheaux
I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
~ Boy George
Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.
~ Aeriel Miranda
My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.
~ Armie Hammer
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.
~ Arne Glimcher
I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.
~ Betty White
I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
~ Billy Bragg
The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.
~ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
~ Edward Norton
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
~ Edward R. Tufte
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
~ Edward Steichen
I'm not just an elected official of the city; I'm a tribal chieftain as well.
~ Edwin O'Connor
Elections, in a democratic way, mean not that the elected party and its leaders respect the democratic system; practically, nowhere exists real democracy.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Nature and character speak itself A flower rose, or whatever else as that; indeed, it has its authenticity and worth; however, it depends on the representation, as honeybees provide honey; whereas, the houseflies represent the bacterial nature. As that conception and insight, one executes identical objects and subjects, as the worst shape or the best way as its natural character.
~ Ehsan Sehgal