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“I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.”

Kind Littles Past Moving Cutting Hair Reactions Moving Forward Bored Symbolic

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life”

Ifs Men Needs Ordinary Rational Ritual Irrational Symbolic

Author:Carl Jung

“What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.”

Should Trying Believe Littles Important Culture I Believe Power Media Victory Financial Strikes American Culture Symbolic Symbolism American Power

Author:James T. Walsh

“Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.”

Children Play Problem Past Form Concern Tools Tasks Significant Resolve Permit Preparing Symbolic Unsolved Problems

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”

Thinking Giving Humans Facts Able Values Dies Process Models Machines Access Mortals Domain Symbolic Thinking Process

Author:Regis Debray

“Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.”

Government President Responsibility Office Critics Serving Senior Jumping Council President Bush Symbolic Chairman Schwarzenegger Physical Fitness

Author:Jon Stewart

“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.”

People Thinking Shows Action Song Force Simple Movement Everyday Strikes Scales Symbols Rely Protest Bus Flags Complacency Symbolic Boycott Montgomery Protest Movements Wristbands

Author:Hugh Evans

“Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.”

Fiction Grace Pages Accidents Symbolic

Author:Mark Helprin

“Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”

Men Mind Light Humanity Energy Prayer Emotion Disease Enlightenment Finals Cunning Plague Symbolic Apostles Famine Godliness Cleanliness Deliverance Nightingales Pestilence Pasteur

Author:Sean O'Casey

“Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.”

Self Spiritual Process Growth Becoming Tasks Oneself Insight Inquiry Symbolic Adept

Book:Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual”

Writing Trying Song Honest Pops Visuals Symbolic Pop Music

Author:Lady G

“I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support, not just flows of democracy assistance …If Tunisia can’t make it, what are the prospects for the rest of the Arab world?”

Ifs Thinking World Important Support Democracy Flow West Investment Aids Experiments Assistance Symbolic Prospects Arab World Tunisia

Author:Larry Diamond

“The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”

“In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.”

Thinking Giving States Past Building Drama Importance South Theatre Debate Britain Funding Symbolic Formation Youth Theatre

Book:Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals

Source: Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals

“Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.”

People Able Action Situation Fantasy Society Discipline Theater Ritual Concrete Sociology Symbolic Anthropology

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.”

“Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.”

Feelings Imagination Worry Speech Anxiety Absolutes Threat Reasoning Unconscious Anxious Representation Examination Symbolic Facilitate

Author:Willard Gaylin

“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.”

Giving Littles Stills Chance Middle Security Victory Suicide West Currents East Desperate Middle East Brutal Bloody Symbolic Bin Laden Prestige Osama Bin Laden Gaza Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:James Buchan

“So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.”

School Literature Class High School Filled Inevitable Tragic Plot Pregnancy Symbolic Timelines Shunning English Class School English

Author:Libba Bray

“So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.”

Action Choices Clear Congress Oil Consumers Concrete Consumption Legislation Reducing Symbolic Gasoline Fiddle Oil Consumption

Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.”

Way Persons Feelings Energy Language Information Type Hearing Symbolic

Author:John Edward

“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.”

Said Attitude Epic Symbolic Exhibits Epic Poetry

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.”

Kind Art Dream Media Strange Entertainment Rings Buttons Belly Symbolic Herds Belly Buttons

Author:Jack Johnson

“My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.”

Mother Games Theory Economics Logic Math Statistics Professors Symbolic

Author:Dave Hickey

“One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.”

Knows Importance Symbolic Bin Laden Organisation Eliminating

Author:Eric Holder

“Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.”

Way Kind Culture Aspect Criticism Pops Analysis Performing Pop Culture Symbolic

Book:Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

“I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.”

Character Stories Feelings Names Interest Loses Symbolic Straightforward

Author:Tayari Jones

“To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.”

Ifs Use Light Action Speak Principles Expression Currents Nervous Nerves Electric Symbolic Magnetism Electric Current

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

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