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“I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more in smart ways about your otherness, rather than doing the hard work of your job.”

Thinking Way Hard Jobs Talking Hard Work Smart Spending Reflecting Insidious Otherness

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.”

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Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“I think what Donald Trump is reflecting is - and I know the media always discounts this because you don't like to get criticized. But you don't treat us the same way that you treat Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama , they get the benefit of the doubt.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.”

“I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.”

Looks Faces Reflecting

Author:Mic Geronimo

“If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.”

Ifs Believe Hard Findings Dues Reflecting Hard To Believe Things That Are Hard

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.”

Nations Attention Cases Reform League Internals Reflecting League Of Nations

Author:Adolf Hitler

“When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for "refudiate," which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was "misunderestimate."”

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Author:Ben Zimmer

“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.”

Thinking War Environment Wall Cold Periods Posts Etc Mentality Cold War Reflecting Post War

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.”

Years Certain Wonderful Danger Training Years Ago Cameras Threatened Wonderful Things Reflecting Discussing Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons.”

“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.”

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Author:Pauline Oliveros

“It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.”

Long Ends Meditation Listening Tone Reflecting

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.Our girls [Paper Girls] are now dealing with what their futures look like, and reflecting on what they hoped the present day versions might be like.”

Looks Might Past Girl Paper Versions Really Great Reflecting Present Day

Author:Cliff Chiang

“'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.”

People Fun Periods Blessing Asking Innocent Having Fun Reflecting Salad Jaded My Blessing

Author:Mac DeMarco

“I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out.”

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Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.”

Artist Responsibility Reflecting

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.”

People Ifs Mind Ideas Reason Facts Problem Law Happened Special Particular Evolution Higher Creating Capable Capacity Pressure Structure Rate Surprising Reflecting Reproduction Contingency

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm not sorry that gays can now enter the military and I'm not sorry that we can marry, but frankly I come from a moment in time, a radical vision in time that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”

Years Made Moments Lasts Values Vision Five Happened Military Gay Extraordinary Sorry Radical Thirty Five Years Criteria Reflecting Respectful Moments In Time Be Respectful Not Sorry

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.”

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Author:Lynne Tillman

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.”

Done Albums Reflecting

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.”

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Author:John Locke

“Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.”

Ideas Produce Delight Absent Reflecting Reflecting Upon

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.”

Careers Reflection Albums Reflecting Music Career

Author:Miriam Makeba

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.”

Thinking Mind Two Class Produce Reflection Reflecting Self Reflection Accord Bolts

Book:The age of reason

Source: The age of reason

“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.”

People World Want Happens Film Actors Groups Planets Reflecting Weird Things

Author:Alan Rickman

“I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.”

People Thinking Made War Hard Feelings Age Film Horror Direct Iraq Strikes Posts Reflecting Iraq War Horror Film

Author:Eli Roth

“I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.”

Important Cures Reflecting

Author:Robert Smith

“Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.”

Young Games Forever Player Baseball Balls Reflecting Gloves Toss Backyards Ball Games Forever Young Reflecting Upon

Author:John Thorn

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Reflection Reflecting

Author:Francois Truffaut

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

“Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”

Sun Sea Glasses Glorious Spheres Reflecting

Author:Brigham Young

“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.”

Ideas Soul Five Taught Lessons Bed Paper Lays Caught Newspapers My Soul Ran Pens Life Lesson Reflecting Columns Leaks Words On Paper

Author:Regina Brett

“So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.”

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Author:Michelangelo

“In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.”

Faces Father Water Saws Reflecting

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.”

Life Is Forget Talent Things In Life Reflecting Saddest Wasted Talent

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

People World Life Inspirational Mind Believe Art Realizing Creation Elements Mirrors Contrary Principal Reflecting

Author:Rabindranath Tagore