#symbol

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I'm not a sex symbol. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#sex #sex symbol #symbol

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#classic #definite #new #new york #symbol

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#countries #foreign #forget #history #language

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

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

— Marilyn Monroe

#hate #i #just #sex #sex symbol

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#fact #inner #inner life #interruption #life

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#beautiful thing #become #call #catch #concentrate

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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