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We're all reflections of the lives we lead.
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
Ken Goldberg / Artist
Fascinated
Robots
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Ourselves
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Burzum is the reflections of my personality. It's my dreams and desires.
Varg Vikernes / Musician
Desires
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John Ruskin / Art Critic
Evil
Imaginary
Real
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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
Peace Pilgrim / Activist
God
Light
Reflection
Source
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
James Madison / 4Th U.s. President
Government
Human Nature
Reflection
Nature Human Human Nature
Greatest
Itself
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When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.
Trevor Paglen / Artist
Night
Sky
Sky Look Night
Look
Reflections
See
Starry
Tend
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
William Congreve / Playwright
Science
Long
Reflection
Confess
Freely
Monkey
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I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
James Rosenquist / Artist
Contemporary
Flicker
Light
Vision
Associations
Bang
Bing
Interested
Flashes
Quick
Rapid
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
Pamela Anderson / Actress
Fairy
Tales
Circle
Fairy Tales
Huge Thing
Inner
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My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I've had that I put across in a humorous or satirical way.
Shoojit Sircar /
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The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.
Craig Brown /
Bedroom
Sea
Sun
Wake Up
Ceiling
First Thing
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One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?
Roger Scruton / Philosopher
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Yoshihiko Noda / Former Prime Minister Of Japan
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Japan
Lessons
Nuclear
Plant
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I've gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.
Chip Gaines /
Pompous
Great Place
Notice
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I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe / Architect
Light
Models
Ordinary
Shadow
Actual
Buildings
Discovered
Effect
Glass
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Our kids are reflections of us. How we interact with others, even in a hostile situation... how we respond and our children see that is how they are going to respond.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Hostile
Situation
Respond
Interact
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I see reflections of what I love about myself in the love and care I receive from my friends, family, and co-workers who, in turn, allow me to love and care about them.
Asia Kate Dillon /
Love Family Myself
Co-Workers
Receive
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It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
William Godwin / Journalist
Conversation
Faculty
Flow
Interchange
Perpetual
Sentiments
Characteristic
Indeed
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Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.
Rod Steiger / Actor
Importance
Injustice
People
Reflection
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Began
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Engage
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike / Novelist
Art
Change
Smile
Customs
Mirrors
Offended
Reflection
Respectable
Convictions
Admit
Last
Mirror
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Ads
Faithful
One Day
Our Time
Range
Reflection
Activities
Discover
Entire
Historians
Reflections
Richest
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Monsters can be scary, and they're great, but they're only really scary when they're reflections of us and they show you the things you're scared of might be true about your own nature.
Scott Snyder / Writer
Monsters
Scary
Be True
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I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman / Merchant
Christ
Diversion
Pleasure
Resolution
Return
Serious
Uneasy
Flock
Greatest Pleasure
Hence
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The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
Contribution
Differentiate
Sea
Banks
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All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it's very nostalgic and fun, but also it's cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.
Chad Gilbert /
Nostalgic
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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
Grace Jones / Singer
Losing
Mirrors
Modelling
Reality
Reflection
Staring
Life Reality My Life
Quit
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When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
Jon Katz / Journalist
Particular
Animals
Dogs
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Reveal
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I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman /
Seeking
Life Myself Man
Embodies
Entire Life
Occupies
Queer
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe / Author
Culture
Literature
Mere
Reflection
Serious
Tokyo
Wish
Works
Consumer
Cultures
Vast
Writers
Large
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In 'Cape Fear,' all that water and the reflections and these threatening and submerged images in the water - that signals the awfulness that is to come. We're very good at awfulness. No, really, we do do some sweet titles, too.
Saul Bass / Graphic Designer
Awfulness
Signals
Submerged
Threatening
Titles
Water
Cape
Images
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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
Kenneth Burke / Author
Men
Circumstances
Function
Reality
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I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.
Marya Hornbacher / Author
Dark
Examination
Human Beings
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Subjects
Appear
Attempt
Badly
Connect
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Further
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We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
David Icke / Writer
Consciousness
Infinite
Principles
Universal
God I Am Me
Call
God Me I Am
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Frances Burney /
Dare
Secret
Surprising
Adventures
Dearest
Dedicate
Dislikes
Fears
Hopes
Nearest
Reflections
Relations
Reveal
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Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.
James Comey /
Computers
Technology
Changed
Forever
Important
Long
Online
Phones
Way
World
Live
Technology Computers World
Another
Much
All Day
Become
Day
Hold
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Personalities
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I used to hear on the radio people like Jack Benny or Bob Hope, but I never had any interest in their type of humor. I thought that I could do something more substantially meaningful with significant, thoughtful, analytical reflections on real life situations.
Jackie Mason / Comedian
Meaningful
Significant
Thoughtful
Analytical
Benny
Jack
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
Edgar Ramirez / Actor
Compassion
Mirrors
Scary
Subjects
Horror Movie
Metaphors
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Each time I turn on my own television screen and see reflections of myself in other courageous young LGBTQ-identifying actors and artists, I know that the dream is expanding. That would not be possible without LGBTQ Pride. Celebrate yourself, and the world will catch up.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman /
Celebrate
Courageous
Expanding
Time Myself World
Catch
Each Time
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I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.
Colin Morgan / Film Actor
Harness
Mary
Cave
Crystal
Legend
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Powers
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The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.
John P. Kotter / Author
Academic
Analysis
Dry
Earnest
Including
Research
Work Way More
Applied
Conclusions
Drew
More And More
Readers
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I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.
Kat Graham /
African American
African American Women
Assess
Begins
Unfortunately
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Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman /
Coming Of Age
Mainstream Media
Rarity
Escape
Portrayed
Reflections
Viewing
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I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.
Ana Tijoux / Musician
Creativity
Egocentric
Liberation
Prisoner
Publishing
Reflection
Senses
Shy
Simple
Song
Deciding
Feeling
Small
More And More
Reflections
Same Time
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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Dance
Bangs
Binary
Frantic
Happenings
Heavenly
Majestic
Reflection
Stars
String Theory
Theory
Universe
Waltz
Wondrous
Bang
Big Bang
Master
Equation
Galaxies
Grand
Physical
Potential
Primordial
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