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I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Steve Israel

Christmas, Frustration, Light

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When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Thinking, Imagination, Silence

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If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diana Wynne Jones

Rainbow, Way, Speak

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

James Joyce

Art, Glasses, Servant

Ulysses (1922)

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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Corita Kent

Littles, Taste, Pieces

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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Paul Klee

Self, Drawing, Finals

Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Allen Klein

World, Financial, Landmarks

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In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

Joe Klein

Long, Political, Facts

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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Jacques Lacan

Communication, Men, Splits

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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan

Absence, Units, Uniqueness

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To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Jon Landau

Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

Smile, Buttons, Denial

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I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Jude Law

Sex, Know How, Knows

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

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Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

Art, Use, Language

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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

Sophia Loren

Sex, Years, Born

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Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

Christian Louboutin

Different, Culture, Red

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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur

Journey, Soul, Soldier

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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Shirley Manson

Beautiful, Sexy, Flirty

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

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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Hilary Mantel

Ideas, Lasts, Facts

"On the one hand ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2007.

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I'm not a sex symbol.

Jenny McCarthy

Sex, Sex Symbol

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If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Moby

Sex, Would Be, Getting Laid

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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe

Sex, Hate, Sex Symbol

Interview, Life, July 1962

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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Girl, Sex

Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Art, Creativity, Cities

"The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

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I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

Liam Neeson

Sex, Thinking, Flattering

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