Symbol Quotes
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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All art is at once surface and symbol.
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If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
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I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.
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The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.
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Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper.
