Quotes About Representation

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Despite the fact that important measures such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed only with crucial Republican support, the public - and the community of disability advocates - normally identifies this issue with the Democratic party.

Whetstone of Witte introduced the symbol "_" because "noe 2 thynges can be more equalle than a pair of paralleles.

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The careful reader, and even the careless reader who's had a few too many drinks, will notice that the Point of View is not all male. You'll see plenty of male nakedness here, and the women are not the rocket-breasted, uber-sexualized portrayals of women that comics often offer.

We might not be your average tean of mutant heroes. But if you want a team that represents commercialized, globalized, brand-obsessed world in which we live...you don`t have to look any further than...

Your Personal Brand is the mental picture your prospects get when they think about you.

Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form.

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Ecstasy, as philosophy understands it, is not a phenomenon of light-headedness that interests psychologists or chemists, but the way in which the being represents itself as tenseness in an Elsewhere

You can count in binary on your fingers up to 1023.

And believe it or not, those screaming faces Sarasti used near the end of the book represent a very real form of statistical analysis: Chernoff faces,132 which are more effective than the usual graphs and statistical tables at conveying the essential characteristics of a data set.133

Freed was reportedly asked why he had not shot in Scotland, where the story is set, and said he'd been there and decided against it, because Scotland did not look Scottish enough and anyway, it was too rainy. The Scotland he and Minnelli wanted was a fairy-tale Scotland, distilled from centuries of mythic representation.

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

Jury selection took six months, longer than most had anticipated. On January 10, 1989, a jury and twelve alternates were sworn in, comprised of six Hispanics and six blacks, seven females and five males. The Hernandezes felt it was a victory for the defense.

The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.

The following day, Melvin Belli told Ruth he couldn't, in any capacity, work on the case, citing money and time as the main obstacles. "If," he told the L.A. Daily News, "I were to represent him, I'd want a thorough, thorough mental examination of him before I would consider going into the case; that would cost lots of money, and the family just can't afford it." Richard was not surprised by Belli's position.

Oxnard attorney Joseph Gallegos had heard that Ramirez was looking for new counsel. Gallegos had recently represented on murder charges a Mexican gang member who had been convicted and sentenced to twenty-seven years.

If you wanted lesbians to come to a discussion, too, it might be better not to call your group the Gay Men's Group.

Gay men needed lightbulbs too.

Ideology is not simply an idea reproduced by individuals though a system of representation. Rather, it is a lived experience.

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