Quotes About Representation

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

I think that I get to represent different types of beauty that [are] not just my own.

I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

I want to be the best president I can be for every American.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.

I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.

Postmodernism is part of a recent tradition in the humanities that opposes the idea that language should be analyzed as a system used to represent, or stand for; objects and situations in the world. This anti-representationalist view of language influenced a lot of literary theory, as well as other humanistic disciplines, in the latter part of the twentieth century. Postmodernism is a spectacular outgrowth of that line of thought.