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Quotes About Representation

We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not all of them do martial arts. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own arcs, their own stories, their own subtleties and nuances. And I think that's what's important.
~ Simu Liu
Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.
~ Rebel Wilson
I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
~ Natasha Rothwell
I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
~ Shakira
To succeed, the Conservative Party must be at home in modern Britain.
~ Damian Green
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Yoksul halk?n?n ya?ama sava??na gözlerini kapay?p cami minberinden cennet öyküleri say?klayanlar m? uygarl?k temsilcisi olacaklar?
~ Unknown
they may produce a reproduction which differs as little as possible from external reality
~ Unknown
Piaget also did not provide a detailed analysis of how communicative interaction leads to symbolic representation.
~ Unknown
Unfortunately, Baillargeon (2008) is not aware of the epistemological commitments resulting from her theory. For example, Baillargeon does not address how her theory avoids the symbol-grounding problem (i.e., the problem of explaining how representative items can have meaning)
~ Unknown
Everything you do or say is public relations.
~ Unknown
Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?
~ Unknown
Isn't it more important to live reality and not symbols?
~ Unknown
Even symbols decayed.
~ Unknown
My body is an avatar.
~ Vanna Bonta
El poeta representa el drama angustioso que se realiza entre el mundo y el cerebro humano, entre el mundo y su representación. El que no haya sentido el drama que se juega entre la cosa y la palabra, no podrá comprenderme.
~ Vicente Huidobro
All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but representatives of real things. Max Born (1953)
~ Victor J. Stenger
Preston] Hotchkis had earned his position by representing San Marino, a tiny, rich, Anglo municipality south of Pasadena that had been tellingly named after a European micro-kingdom.
~ Unknown
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
~ Victoria Claflin Woodhull
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
~ Joan Smalls
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
~ Henri Matisse
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
~ Steven Weinberg
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
~ Thomas Hardy