Mascots Quotes

• I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.

  Leonard Little

  Who I Am, People, Giving

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• I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Stars, Fame, Gallery

  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

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• If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

  Jay Mohr

  Team, Ifs, Sells

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• I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.

  Stella Vine

  Saws, Problem, Bigs

  "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

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• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Native American, Racism

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• I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Kids, Down And, Beats

  "Crush Of The Week: Jamie Campbell Bower" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

  Phillip Lopate

  Creativity, People, Treats

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• My team good, we don’t really need a mascot.

  Drake

  Team, Needs

  Song: The Motto, Album: You Welcome

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• Every single show she out there reppin like a mascot.

  Drake

  Humble, Shows

  Song: Best I Ever Had, 2009

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• Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.

  Russell Means

  Sports, Team, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiration, Wings, Bumblebees

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• As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lying, Loss, Our World

  Source: rzim.org

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• At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Past, Thinking

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Running, Real, Stupid

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• Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, America, Pet

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• I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

  Big Sean

  Want, Dynasty, Lions

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don't even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don't even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don't even know it?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, School, Mean

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• Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Movement, Kind, Figures

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.

  Russell Means

  Country, Character, Government

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• Tell your little mascot to get out of here, cause I have no problem flippin' the bird.

  Edge

  Wwe, Bird, Littles

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• I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Lucky Charms, Superstitious, Lucky

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

  Ken Jennings

  Writing, Blue, Games

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• Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

  Alan Moore

  Cereal, Television, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the job. After all, he already does just about everything else for MSU.

  Javon Ringer

  Football, Jobs, College

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