Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
I wanted ‘The South Bank Show’ to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy.
When I reflect on my career I have no regrets.
I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security – the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.
You don’t need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It’s more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you’ve gone through.
As I get older, I increasingly value free time that’s completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It’s like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
I don’t actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power – when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don’t reflect the balance of political opinion in the country – can corrupt absolutely.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
There’s a lot of levity to ‘Offspring’ and I just love that the costumes reflect that.
It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
If we talk about art in general… all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.
There’s multiple ways I express myself. Music is my first love and will always come first. But, there are other areas and industries I’m interested in that reflect different aspects of my lifestyle.
I am proud of all of our products across every category we’re in – hair, bath and body, face, cosmetics, baby, and men’s – because they reflect the highest quality natural, organic, fair trade, and community commerce-sourced ingredients available.
Prices don’t merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow.
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your personality.
Music reflects the time that it’s being made in, and so certainly, the music that’s being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he’s an inspired and creative musician.
The sacrifices in the war against terrorism reflect complete and strong determination of Pakistan against terrorism.
If what I read doesn’t reflect my life – whether I’m gay or Latino or on welfare – doesn’t that really mean that my life is not valuable?
When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.
The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
I want my private life to reflect what I preach publicly.
Being authentic is important to me, and I am not going to present this fluff, fake, sanitized version of myself that doesn’t reflect who I am or what my passions and interests are.
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.
The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.
The teenager’s room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that’s a healthy thing. I mean, that’s what democracy is all about.
You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.
Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn’t always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.
But if you’re doing something and you don’t know why you’re doing it, then it’s good to reflect on the intentionality behind it.
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
My father was a certain kind of man – I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father’s name.
Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can’t fundamentally change what I am.
Sometimes audiences want to see what we’re doing to their world. It’s our obligation sometimes to reflect it.
I’ve always been a big believer that winning a Super Bowl is an outstanding achievement, but that doesn’t really reflect on what type of career that a person has had.
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.
I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.
I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there’s a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It’s so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.
Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
I can honestly say this industry hasn’t made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They’re meant to make you feel good.
I did a TV show called ‘Lenny Henry Dot TV’ a couple of years ago and I hated it. These things always happen when you don’t have time to reflect. And I didn’t do anything on the telly for three years.
Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes – for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender – instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.
I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it. And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you’re going to hear it in the music.
Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters – from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.
What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect ‘on’ things. The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
