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"A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then."
"The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see."
"You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it."
"In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently."
"If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain."
"Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror."
"You have to look in the mirror and see that what you're wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just wearing a larger size."
"What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life."
"Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us."
"There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror."
"The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM"
"I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready."
"Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors."
"Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman."
"For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it."
"The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?"
"I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily."
"He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could."
"I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love."
"Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror."
