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Quotes About Representation

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
~ Samuel E. Morison
We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.
~ Geoffrey Hinton
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
~ Jeff Hawkins
An accurate census is critical to our democracy and to our economy. It underpins fair representation in government and allows us to ensure that our communities receive equitable funding for schools, roads, health care, and much more.
~ Alex Padilla
My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.
~ Mena Massoud
Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
~ Piet Mondrian
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
~ Pedro Almodovar
I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
~ Helen Suzman
I think the BBC has come a long way in equal pay. I think it's come the furthest of all in the representation of women on screen.
~ Fiona Bruce
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
~ Gustave Courbet
Being female and an advocate for equal opportunities, I want to see an equal representation in people applying for the head coach job for the women's team.
~ Megan Rapinoe
Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.
~ Sadiq Khan
I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
~ Amber Heard
You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
~ Edmund Phelps
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts.
~ Gad Saad
'Black Panther' has made me embrace my natural black hair. The representation of natural black hair in the film has made me reflect on myself.
~ Letitia Wright
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
~ Nydia Velazquez
Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and putting money behind candidates.
~ Killer Mike
It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.
~ Lauren Jauregui
There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.
~ Lulu Wang
Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.
~ Barbie Ferreira
Representation is actually when the character doesn't have lines, but the camera is lingering on them in their thoughts after something happened, and then we get to see them walk to their car. You really need to follow a character in order to understand what they're going through.
~ Ramy Youssef