Quotes About Representation

Nobody wrote stories about us, but still people always asked my mother for directions in a crowd.

The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Aesop's fable: As the Lion said to the Man, "There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Nefertiti is a face without a queen; Cleopatra is a queen without a face.

Sometimes, a different way of representing information is the key to understanding something as complicated as the subatomic world.

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

It is probably best for us not to concentrate in too literal a fashion on the temporal structure of myth.

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

But the people didn't elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Hexadecimal uses 0 through 9 to represent 0 through 9, but it also uses A through F to represent the values 10 through 15.

my father claims to be able to understand it, though perhaps he would not thanks me for the suggestion that he is representative. (Introduction)

We are to consider, that though Christ is greatly exalted, yet he is exalted, not as a private person for himself only, but as his people's head; he is exalted in their name, and upon their account, as the first fruits, and as representing the whole harvest. He is not exalted that he may be at a greater distance from them, but that they may be exalted with him.

The rider acts like a lawyer whom the elephant has hired to represent it in the court of public opinion.

The Weirdest People in the World?"2 The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature.

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).

we chose our samples so that they would be truly representative of the respective population.

the model is not the diagram.

The map is not the territory. The man is not the file.

History, it has been said, is what the present chooses to remember about the past.

My mother explains we are not legless birds, mutants. If she'd had a better education she would have know the word "ambiguous," not quite fish, more than snake, but settling into her limitations, she says we are among the few (the Marines?). The last Tuscarora Eel died a generation ago, so we are left Onondaga Eels among the Tuscarora, opinions dismissed by politics of representation, voices silenced in air and water.

In short, a government created by the Unionist portion of Virginia—a minority of the total population—purported to speak for the entire state, including the majority of the state that supported secession.