Mirror Quotes
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
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One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
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My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.
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Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.
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He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
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I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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But it was long ago and it was far away,Oh god, it seems so very far.And if life is just a highwayThen the soul is just a car.And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
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Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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It's like I'm living inside a mirror. I see things, I do things, but they are just surfaces and nothing more.
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If you're wondering by now who I am, look no further than the mirror,Because I am the greed and fear - and every ounce of hate in you.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
