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• I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

  Francesca Annis

  Sex, Want, Euthanasia

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• Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

  Margot Asquith

  Signposts, Imaginative

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  Irving Babbitt

  Reading, Sunday, Perfect

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  Erykah Badu

  Teaching, Self, Groups

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• I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, Sex, Stupid

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• Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Confused, Men, Temples

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• Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Democracy, Publicity, Becoming

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Sex, Thinking

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• By the time President Obama took office, Guantánamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

  John O. Brennan

  Effectiveness, Law, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

  Luke Bryan

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

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• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  Gary Busey

  Three, Pieces, Fuel

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Apr 20, 2013

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• I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Two, Guy

  "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Witty, Government

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Fidel Castro

  Jesus, Ideas, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  Carol P. Christ

  Independent, Female, Goddess

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• American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Home, Unique

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• It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

  Joan Collins

  Pride, Ugly, Faults

  Joan Collins (2012). “The World According to Joan”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  Daniel Craig

  Sex, Nice, Mean

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Pigeons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

  Irwin Edman

  Business, Communication, Men

  "The world, the arts and the artist".

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• You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

  Idris Elba

  Sex, Age, Watches

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