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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.
I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mirrors. Or packing boxes. Or stuffing into knee-high boots to help retain their shape. Or using for fun crafts. Okay, I don't hate actual newspapers, I guess.
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
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.
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations.
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.