Reflection Quotes — Page 37

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Comedian

“I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.”

People Levels Reflection

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Roman Coppola

Filmmaker

“I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.”

Feels Made Reflection

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Sun Bu'er

Taoist

“Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.”

Light Cutting Reflection

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.”

Use Practice Reflection

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Russell Banks

Novelist

“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.”

America Community Reflection

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Russell Simmons

Entrepreneur, Music Producer

“The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.”

Community Hard Work Reflection

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Russell Simmons

Entrepreneur, Music Producer

“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.”

Artist Sex Reflection

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Russell Sherman

Author, Poet

“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”

Art Essence Reflection

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Saul Williams

Poet, Actor, Musician

“The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.”

Giving Reflection Hip Hop

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L. Ron Hubbard

Author

“Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.”

Wells Reflection Happy Life

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Zoë Heller

Author, Journalist

“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”

Doe Nice Reflection

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Zola Jesus

Musician, singer-songwriter

“Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.”

Reflection Duality Synthetic

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