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• It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

  Richard Armitage

  Sexy, School, Thinking

  "Richard Armitage: 'I Was a Beanpole With a Nose I Hadn't Grown Into'". The Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don't look at any awards everyday.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Team, Hard Work

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Reading, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ifs, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Night, Thinking

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage

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• I am not a sex symbol.

  Jason Isaacs

  Sex, Sex Symbol

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• The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Men, Fables

  "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day". Book by Michael J. Gelb (p. 127), October 21, 2009.

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• The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Long Ago, Profound

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 85), 1956.

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Party, Rome

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• As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.

  Daniel Craig

  Sex, Consideration, Concerned

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Talking, Superhero

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Males, Naked

  "Howard Smith: The counter-cultural correspondent's interviews from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to Raquel Welch". New York radio show, www.independent.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Book, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cuba, Resistance, Courageous

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• I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mind, Beginners

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Acting, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Dirty, Sin

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• For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Land, America

  Address in Abu Dhabi on Freedom and Extremism in the Middle East, delivered 13 January 2008, Emirates Palace Hotel, United Arab Emirates

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• Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

  Lord Kelvin

  Reality, Progress, Facts

  "Treatise on Natural Philosophy". Book by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1867.

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