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The intricate mosaic of personality, where the fragments of temperament, character, and individual experience interlock to form the unique existence of the self. In this psychological atelier, the artist of the mind blends the hues of genetics, environment, and personal narrative, creating a portrait that evolves with the brushstrokes of time. – Martin Tobias Lithner	added by huyenhuyen19921992 4 months ago
On social media, every 'like' is a pixel in the portrait of your online self. – Imel Seda	added by imels.44823 7 months ago
At its heart, Matthew's brilliant script is both a fascinating character portrait of a troubled and fearless man full of contradictions, and a deep dive into the disruptor who used the internet to challenge and break up the American Elite's narrative, you can draw a direct line from Matt Drudge to where we are today as a country in terms of speech, both for better and worse. – Ben Hurwitz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is. – Mira Nairs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Since 1790, census data have painted a vivid, vibrant portrait of America. – Robert Santos	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is one of the most humbling of all the recognition that I’ve gotten, i’ve lived in Washington the last 50 years and the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery is an iconic place in my mind. It makes me feel humbled and almost embarrassed to be in the same building with the people whose portraits are there. – Anthony Fauci	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My book about Stephen Miller was independently fact-checked and my reporting speaks for itself, mr. Elder had the opportunity to speak to me for my column but his press secretary canceled on the morning of our appointment.I believe my column paints a nuanced and fair portrait of Mr. Elder, including a look at his moving relationship with his father. – Jean Guerrero	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign. – Glenn Godenho	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign. – Glenn Godenho	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What's very interesting about that portrait is the musical score. It's actually only known from that portrait, so some musicologists have said it could be the work of Mozart himself. – Astrid Centner-d'Oultremont	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Some people have been pleased with it and said 'Long Live the King'. Some people have said it's not appropriate to have the king's portrait there, but we just want to express our loyalty. – Vorajit Chantanon	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In the end, your will and heart will determine the portrait of your life. – R.J. Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 5 years ago
The objective was to ensure that Donald Trump portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. – Michael Cohen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Donald Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event, the objective was to ensure that Donald Trump portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. – Michael Cohen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can bear witness that the portrait painted of that time and place in our history is very real, it's seared in my memory, black men and women, our brothers and sisters, treated as second class citizens, threatened for raising their families or earning a living, beaten and sometimes killed for the crime of trying to live a life with dignity. Our nation bears the scars of that time, as do I. – John Lewis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This image is in one sense traditional -- a portrait. But what a striking one, and what magical animals, it is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how impoverished we are becoming as nature is diminished. It is an artwork worthy of hanging in any gallery in the world. – Roz Kidman Cox	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary. – Omar Bradley	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The first portrait I painted was Jackie, i spent two months painting it. It was like spending time with her. There was joy and there was sorrow. – Jim Zanfagna	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We've got a thriller, a love story, a teen portrait, but the LGBT content is not central, it's one of the elements. – Franck Finance-Madureira	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If a white person gets matched with a 19th-century American portrait of someone who looks fairly similar, but two very different-looking Asian women get matched with the same woodblock print of a figure who looks nothing like them, it’s fair to say that people will see racial bias in the app. – Nancy Locke	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Greeting indigenous Code Talkers in front of that portrait, knowing Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears, is disrespectful -- it's worse than that. It's appallingly out of touch, this isn't the first time he's attempted to slur Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahontas, who was a real person, and he diminished an entire demographic of native women to a single figure in history who's been largely fetishized and whose traumatic story has been whitewashed by the American narrative. – Tara Houska	Found on CNN 6 years ago
As far as my understanding, there was some initial contact to get some access, and then once the book came out, there was no contact, and no attempt to rectify their feelings of the portrait being problematic… I believe there should have been a greater attempt to address their issues. The evidence demonstrates that there was no such attempt. – Joe Berlinger	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Trump’s portrait of a dark, crisis-ridden America where good jobs are scarce and life is grim sounds to some people in those states as their reality. – Michael Leary	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The picture was remarkably unremarkable, it looked like a dark, discolored portrait of three people, one of whom is passed out. – John Nye	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

The intricate mosaic of personality, where the fragments of temperament, character, and individual experience interlock to form the unique existence of the self. In this psychological atelier, the artist of the mind blends the hues of genetics, environment, and personal narrative, creating a portrait that evolves with the brushstrokes of time.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

On social media, every 'like' is a pixel in the portrait of your online self.

– Imel Seda

added by imels.44823
7 months ago

At its heart, Matthew's brilliant script is both a fascinating character portrait of a troubled and fearless man full of contradictions, and a deep dive into the disruptor who used the internet to challenge and break up the American Elite's narrative, you can draw a direct line from Matt Drudge to where we are today as a country in terms of speech, both for better and worse.

– Ben Hurwitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is.

– Mira Nairs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since 1790, census data have painted a vivid, vibrant portrait of America.

– Robert Santos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is one of the most humbling of all the recognition that I’ve gotten, i’ve lived in Washington the last 50 years and the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery is an iconic place in my mind. It makes me feel humbled and almost embarrassed to be in the same building with the people whose portraits are there.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My book about Stephen Miller was independently fact-checked and my reporting speaks for itself, mr. Elder had the opportunity to speak to me for my column but his press secretary canceled on the morning of our appointment.I believe my column paints a nuanced and fair portrait of Mr. Elder, including a look at his moving relationship with his father.

– Jean Guerrero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

– Glenn Godenho

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

– Glenn Godenho

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What's very interesting about that portrait is the musical score. It's actually only known from that portrait, so some musicologists have said it could be the work of Mozart himself.

– Astrid Centner-d'Oultremont

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Some people have been pleased with it and said 'Long Live the King'. Some people have said it's not appropriate to have the king's portrait there, but we just want to express our loyalty.

– Vorajit Chantanon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the end, your will and heart will determine the portrait of your life.

– R.J. Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

The objective was to ensure that Donald Trump portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon.

– Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Donald Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event, the objective was to ensure that Donald Trump portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon.

– Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can bear witness that the portrait painted of that time and place in our history is very real, it's seared in my memory, black men and women, our brothers and sisters, treated as second class citizens, threatened for raising their families or earning a living, beaten and sometimes killed for the crime of trying to live a life with dignity. Our nation bears the scars of that time, as do I.

– John Lewis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This image is in one sense traditional -- a portrait. But what a striking one, and what magical animals, it is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how impoverished we are becoming as nature is diminished. It is an artwork worthy of hanging in any gallery in the world.

– Roz Kidman Cox

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary.

– Omar Bradley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The first portrait I painted was Jackie, i spent two months painting it. It was like spending time with her. There was joy and there was sorrow.

– Jim Zanfagna

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We've got a thriller, a love story, a teen portrait, but the LGBT content is not central, it's one of the elements.

– Franck Finance-Madureira

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If a white person gets matched with a 19th-century American portrait of someone who looks fairly similar, but two very different-looking Asian women get matched with the same woodblock print of a figure who looks nothing like them, it’s fair to say that people will see racial bias in the app.

– Nancy Locke

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Greeting indigenous Code Talkers in front of that portrait, knowing Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears, is disrespectful -- it's worse than that. It's appallingly out of touch, this isn't the first time he's attempted to slur Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahontas, who was a real person, and he diminished an entire demographic of native women to a single figure in history who's been largely fetishized and whose traumatic story has been whitewashed by the American narrative.

– Tara Houska

Found on CNN
6 years ago

As far as my understanding, there was some initial contact to get some access, and then once the book came out, there was no contact, and no attempt to rectify their feelings of the portrait being problematic… I believe there should have been a greater attempt to address their issues. The evidence demonstrates that there was no such attempt.

– Joe Berlinger

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Trump’s portrait of a dark, crisis-ridden America where good jobs are scarce and life is grim sounds to some people in those states as their reality.

– Michael Leary

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The picture was remarkably unremarkable, it looked like a dark, discolored portrait of three people, one of whom is passed out.

– John Nye

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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