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I don't consider myself a sex symbol.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Author:
Raquel Welch
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
Author:
John Thune
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Author:
Madame Stael
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In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.
Author:
John Sexton
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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Author:
Steven Seagal
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
Author:
Jack Schwartz
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Author:
George Santayana
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The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
Author:
Bill Russell
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
Author:
Herbert Read
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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Author:
Laura Prepon
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
Author:
Max Pree
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Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.
Author:
Jon Porter
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Author:
Harold Pinter
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Author:
Pericles
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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
Author:
Kim Novak
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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.
Author:
Moby
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Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Author:
Isaac Mizrahi
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The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Author:
Mark Messier
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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
Author:
Michael Medved
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I'm not a sex symbol.
Author:
Jenny McCarthy
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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.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.
Author:
John Mahoney
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I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
Author:
Tobey Maguire
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Author:
James Lowell
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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.
Author:
Sophia Loren
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Author:
Bai Ling
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I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
Author:
Jude Law
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
Author:
Susanne Langer
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
Author:
Veronica Lake
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Author:
Jacques Lacan
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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.
Author:
Allen Klein
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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.
Author:
Paul Klee
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The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Author:
Alan Keyes
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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.
Author:
Corita Kent
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
Author:
Irving Kaufman
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In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Author:
Arne Jacobsen
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Author:
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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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.
Author:
Lena Horne
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
Author:
John Hickenlooper
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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Author:
Jim Henson
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Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
Author:
Johann Hamann
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Author:
Graham Greene
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The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
Author:
Richard Gere
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Author:
Marcus Garvey
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For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
Author:
Dennis Franz
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The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
Author:
Virginia Foxx
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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
Author:
John Forsythe
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
Author:
Randy Forbes
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.
Author:
Diane Feinstein
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
Author:
Sam Elliott
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Author:
George Eliot
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Author:
Irwin Edman
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Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
Author:
Friedrich Ebert
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Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Author:
Andrea Dworkin
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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.
Author:
Tommy Douglas
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
Author:
Bobby Darin
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Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
Author:
Adrian Cronauer
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Author:
Hart Crane
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Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
Author:
Jim Costa
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They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.
Author:
Jim Cole
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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.
Author:
William Clinton
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
Author:
Paul Claudel
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Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
Author:
Carol Christ
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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.
Author:
Carol Christ
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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.
Author:
Fidel Castro
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At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
Author:
John Carmack
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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.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Author:
George Carlin
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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.
Author:
David Bowie
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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.
Author:
John Boehner
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Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.
Author:
Jolene Blalock
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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.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
Author:
Benazir Bhutto
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
Author:
Marion Berry
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I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
Author:
Kim Basinger
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The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
Author:
Joe Barton
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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
Author:
Joseph Barbera
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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.
Author:
Erykah Badu
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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.
Author:
Francesca Annis
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I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Author:
Jennifer Aniston
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
Author:
Carl Andre
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Author:
Henri Amiel
