Representation Quotes

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

I just believe that marriage is a beautiful representation of God's love for us and that there is such a cherishing that can happen in marriage that is different from any other relationship.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.