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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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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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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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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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
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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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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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All art is at once surface and symbol.
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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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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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The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.
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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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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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The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
