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“When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.”

Thinking Knows Trying Persons Matter Character Use Would Be Seeing Color Males Limitation Sexism Representation

Author:Junot Diaz

“If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.”

People Ifs Way Kids Teacher Gay Instance Classroom Representation Gay People Positive Image

Author:Amy Ray

“I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.”

Thinking Problem Used Answers Brain Subjects Complexes Complicated Experiments Suspects Impressed Representation End Times Spend Time Distracted Reflecting Complex Problems

Author:Patricia Churchland

“Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.”

Stories Universe Father Development Ego Discovery Absolutes Cosmic Representation Idealism Accompany Transcendental Thesis

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.”

Knows Struggle Representation Idealism Nihilism Subjectivism

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.”

World Real Self Reality Creating Aim Users Representation Subjective Virtual Reality Immersion

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

Problem Reality Might Social Emotion Wife Example Possibility Emotional Ordinary Excellent Perceive Cheating Representation Transparency Ordinary Life Phenomenology Misrepresentation

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.”

Together Views Position Perspective Conversation Ideals Currents Wide Experts Dimensions Representation Consensus Pursued

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I do think it's important to distinguish between intentionalism about consciousness and externalism about consciousness. Intentionalism says that consciousness is a form of intentionality - the representation of things to the mind. Externalism says that these things have to exist in order for them to be represented, or presented. These are different views.”

Thinking Mind Important Different Form Order Views Consciousness Representation Different Views Intentionality

Author:Tim Crane

“I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to make the show, and that it is in alignment with what I'm interested in, with what I read about. For me, it just felt like an organic step - of course, I'm thinking I want a show that allows for more representation for the community and shows the struggles people face, especially when we're hearing all this political rhetoric - to have a way to show how much this affects people lives.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Shows Faces Political Courses Opportunity Felt Community Steps Struggle Lucky Hearing Rhetoric Representation Alignment So Lucky Political Rhetoric

Author:Ellen Page

“There are other people that think that dreams actually do serve a purpose. But what that purpose is, we're not really sure. So some people believe that it actually does have some psychological representation of what's going on in the day, but there's no need to sit and really analyze it.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Doe Dream Purpose Psychological Representation

Author:Shelby Harris

“I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.”

Feels Should Looks Stuff Like You Approach Harmony Appearance Visuals Internals Entity Representation External Appearance

Author:Taraka Larson

“Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.”

Way Children Different Form Stars Parent Levels Grace Highest Our Children Stranger Partners Your Children Different Ways Representation Sibling Different Levels North Star

Author:Ben Harper

“It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government.”

People Needs Country Government Chance Party Millions Clear Our Country Labour Representation Jeopardy Labour Party

Author:Tessa Jowell

“If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.”

Ifs Book Parent Struggle Willing Perception Fairs Crisis Representation Personal Life Ups & Downs My Struggle

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee, but through other vehicles as well. Expect to see the African-American community, the Latino community, the LGBT community, and others represented on stage and in the substance of our policies throughout the week.”

Wells Community Issues Week Stage Policy Program African American Substance Discussion Lgbt Conventions Vehicle Representation Latino Robust Lgbt Community

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.”

People Men Wells Mean States Levels Issues Taken Higher Tables Ridiculous Behave Representation Getting High Prominence

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“To me, food is a representation of your soul.”

Soul Your Soul Representation

Author:Margaret Chapman

“There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.”

Men Looks Problem Happens Today Film Culture White Interesting Perspective Hollywood Contemporary Representation White Man Film History

Author:Karina Longworth

“I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the magic of art. If every picture met my expectation in exactly the right way, there'd be no mystery; there'd be no gap between what's in my head and the picture I make.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Matter Failing Magic Mystery Mets Expectations No Matter What Gaps Representation Right Way Disappoint

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“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.”

Stories Black Responsibility Issues Hollywood I Realized Meaningful Representation Oscars

Author:Usher

“I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.”

Way Stills I Can Self White Aspect Appreciate Critical Acknowledge Representation Aesthetics Presentation Critique Her Beauty

Author:Bell Hooks

“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”

“It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.”

Ifs Want Made Differences Making A Difference Representation Exclusion

Author:Meera Menon

“I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery.”

Thinking Different Rooms Fashion Representation Imagery

Author:Alexa Chung

“I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it.”

Want Writing Self Taken Starting Myth Representation Archives Misrepresentation Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.”

Powerful Representation Adaptable

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Its quite there sonically; a strong representation of what the songs on our records are like. It's very loud and our set is based around containing as much energy and dynamics as possible.”

Song Energy Strong Records Loud Representation Dynamics Containing

Author:Matthew Healy

“I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was the role that Costner played. He was the cool guy. And I read the script, and my representation at the time said, "That's the role you should read for." And I was like, "Really? How about I read for this other role." And they went, "Well, you're not going to get that role."”

Should Wells Said Guy Interesting Roles Scripts Representation Auditions Cool Guy

Author:Judd Nelson

“Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.”

Use Wanted Choices Audience Sacrifice Battle Direct Opponents Damage Representation Antagonist Personal Sacrifice

Author:Jay Roach

“Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.”

States United Half United States Clinton Significant Establishment Representatives Representation Smooth Email Consensus Cabinets

Author:Julian Assange

“When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.”

Firsts Said Country Liberty Feds Representation Taxation Colony Stood Up Fed Up Taxation Without Representation

Author:Manning Marable

“The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.”

Littles States Bigs Powerful Liberty Sun Tired British Empires Representation Oppressed Taxation British Empire Taxation Without Representation

Author:Malcolm X

“Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation or image of the forms, but it won't actually have the forms, it won't touch them as it were, or it won't incorporate them.”

Ifs Kind Problem Form Intellect Representation

Author:Peter Adamson

“If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Example Unity Representation Proportionality

Author:Peter Adamson

“Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.”

Men Mean States Political Black Community Levels Masters Politician Locals Representatives Representation

Author:Malcolm X

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

Stories Literature Diversity Representation

Author:Roxane Gay

“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.”

Needs Has Beens Matter Reason Assuming Diverse Representation Default Need A Change Whiteness

Author:Roxane Gay

“[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.”

Way Self Artist Order Black Figures Fields Possibility Shadow Former Preserves Range Broads Representation Portraits Unlimited Utility Blackness Demonstrating

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.”

Reality White Blood Position Pure Categories Representation Privileged Blackness Whiteness

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.”

Two Different Path Supposed To Be Aesthetic Representation Abstraction Different Paths Sociological

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.”

America Black White Media Red Corporate Revolutionary Brown Controlled Thinker Representation

Author:Louis Farrakhan

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

Persons Bigs Honest Perspective Music Is Who You Are Representation

Author:Miguel

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

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

Self America Failing Sexuality Sensuality Department Representation

Author:Shailene Woodley

“Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".”

Said States Department Representation Rice Ambassadors Brian Benghazi

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.”

People Thinking Should Art Artistic Works Of Art Representation Extravagant

Author:George Saunders

“It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."”

Want Littles I Can Use Shows Universe Fields Shame Insight Connected Substitutes Relative Wow Representation Imagery Stunning

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.”

Needs Believe Looks Said Happens Desire Culture I Believe Sound Black Half Mines Painting Grew Grew Up Lays Like Me Twins Representation American Culture

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.”

Way Giving Believe Mistake Cameras Faithful Visuals Representation

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

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