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I think it's largely symbolic just to show that we're a small little city here in Flat Rock and we can reach out our hand and say we care about what happened in this country. She's an individual that went against the system, and she made a difference.

Councilman Kenneth Wrobel

New York's return to pre-attack levels on the one-month anniversary of the attacks yesterday was symbolic.

Tetsuya Ishijima

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We cannot replace an official investigation. That's why we always insist that what we're doing is symbolic. We just want to initiate a debate. This is the first step to encourage a truth and reconciliation commission.

Roya Boroumand

If the symbolic industry of the United States collapses, it may adversely affect Japan-U.S. relations by stirring up nationalist sentiment there.

Hiroshi Okuda

The war could really be on now. This is something greater and more symbolic than attacks on people. This is a strike at who we are.

Abu Hassan

I think it is symbolic of solidarity and what Powder Ridge means to our community. Once in a while in your life, you are given the opportunity to do something to help out someone else and do the right thing.

Jon Brayshaw

The Himalayan culture is full of ritualized architecture, encouraging great harmony and structure. The colors of the village, the carved animal heads on the doors, the totems -- it's all very symbolic and authentic.

Joe Rohde

The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are the brutal state-by-state battles being waged for this research.

Bernard Siegel

This is symbolic of what's happened with our team, we can close the gap but we are having difficulty getting past that. We aren't mature enough yet to settle down and get past this point.

Dianne Nolan

They can't snap their fingers and do symbolic things and turn it all around. It ain't that easy -- particularly when you have the antipathy that now exists against him.

Garry South

The rest of the world doesn't want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons.

Jonathan Zittrain

Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself.

Reed Kroloff

Anglos are in the midst of watching a demographic change occur. The future is a non-Anglo future. It's not surprising that immigration has become a symbol. The issue is much more symbolic than it is real. It isn't clear what the state can do, in terms of controlling borders.

Stephen Klineberg

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

James Newman

It's a symbolic gesture to argue the law has been effectively implemented. One of the criticisms of Solomon is that it has never been implemented before. The law has been used as a threat to law schools but has never been implemented.

Steve Ralls

[The SPD] are taking steps away from the Agenda 2010 and inserting symbolic, leftist elements, ... If you look at it that way, the Left Party has already succeeded.

Uwe Andersen

My life is dedicated to that man. I hear from his mom and family that's the only thing that keeps them going, is knowing that their son's heart - the heart is really the most symbolic organ I think - is living on and pumping on and that's the only thing that keeps them going.

Connor Rabinowitz

Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will. More than an icon, Mrs. Parks is symbolic of the thousands of courageous NAACP workers who fight for civil rights in their communities.

Bruce S. Gordon

I loved that image. It's a symbolic representation of the deepest emotional aspects of their relationship.

Simon Doonan

It was symbolic of the prevailing attitude at the time that locks to the base were changed abruptly so that sailors, who had been with Team New Zealand for more than a decade, including Brad, found themselves humiliatingly locked out.

Russell Coutts

This is not going to have a huge impact on us. We currently ship through third-party shippers to New York and Michigan, so the biggest impact is symbolic in that it will hopefully allow us to ship to more states.

Phil Bilodeau

For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But they're misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. It's an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.

Charles Franklin

This would certainly be a symbolic act if he (Bush) is the first Republican to make the appointment ... I believe he is right enough.

John Vile

You have to believe at this point that the new Iranian president is willing to use oil as a weapon, if only for a symbolic week or two to create a crisis, exact some concessions from the West and then defuse the situation.

John Kilduff

There was nothing I could do to try to reproduce it, so I did some symbolic illusions. . . . We had to go into skeptics' views, such as maybe Jesus never did actually die on the cross and maybe Jesus was never put into the tomb.

Brock Gill

This only adds to the feeling that central banks are willing to cut rates aggressively, and ahead of schedule. This is symbolic because it shows that things are moving ahead, although no one predicted they would move so far so fast.

Claudio Piron

With the aim of carrying out serious crimes together with other Islamic fundamentalist groups abroad, to attack the U.S. in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings.

Kay Nehm

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball

Whether he is alive or dead almost doesn't matter because he has become a symbolic figure, rather than an operational figure.

Richard Clarke

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

In a way, I've called for a symbolic show on the mall to try to mobilize a lot of people at home to contribute more vigorously - money, resources, things like that - to their local communities.

Ronald Walters

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Ambrose Bierce

When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do. For him, the optimism is very symbolic of what he wants his presidency to be about.

Nicolle Wallace

This is a tremendous economic value for New York City, but it's also an incredibly valuable symbolic message and media message that New York City is open for business.

Christyne Nicholas

I can't emphasize enough the importance of biotechnology and why it is so critical that we stop this initiative before it makes any more headway, ... A victory against biotechnology in Sonoma County would not just be symbolic; it would do real damage to agriculture and a treasured way of life.

Bob Stallman

What it might just do is move whatever gauging is going on back to the supplier or the refinery. If it has any positive effects, they are probably more symbolic than real.

Peter Andersen

On the literal level, Ada is looking for her father. Charles's search is more psychological. Physically, he's looking for the village [where he killed a Vietnamese child point-blank]. By extension, if he finds the village, he thinks something will happen and he'll be absolved -- find completion. I suppose it's symbolic of what happened to him in Vietnam. Ada is still looking for what he was. . . .

David Bergen

It's loaded with all sorts of clues that someone could build a story around. It's very dreamlike. I've told people for many years now that I like the idea that the images are obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. There's not some secret formula to figure out what they mean.

Jerry Uelsmann

It's very symbolic of our needs as a community to address diversity and begin working together.

Marilyn Legge

We talk a lot among ourselves about this record. We can go over 80 points. It's symbolic and we will do everything we can to set it.

Claudio Cacapa

This is a substantial amount of money. This is not some symbolic type of gesture, this is the procedure to be followed.

Allen Lichtenstein

You don't have to have the entire symbolic leadership of the forces and the nation for the fatalities coming back.

Lewis Mackenzie

Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor.

Josh Schwartz

It's symbolic. It's still a restructuring story.

Patrick Juchemich

This is more than symbolic. This is the leader saying, 'We're moving too far right,' ... I'm loath to call Rafsanjani moderate, but in the current context, he is a voice of moderation.

Karim Sadjadpour

Fifty million dollars is more of a symbolic gesture from the Korean government.

Daniel Kim

This unique racquet is symbolic of professional tennis' return to Las Vegas. It represents both the excitement and sizzle of the city and the great tennis fans will see at The Tennis Channel Open presented by Panasonic, the newest gem on the professional tennis circuit.

Steve Bellamy

There's something very symbolic here. Fifty-percent crossover, for whatever reason, has really impacted some people on the fringes.

Steve Murdock

We imprint and project on songs what we want so that they become more important to us. We imprint intimacy in the songs, give them a narrative separate from and parallel to what the author's intent was. In that way, we make the songs symbolic of our own relationships.

Howard Kramer

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.

John Edward

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Norman Thomas

The outer level is symbolic and represents the world in its divine form and the inner level represents a map where the mind is transformed into an enlightened mind. The secret level represents the balance of mind and body and the energies surrounding them.

Thupten Chosang

Every tattoo tells a story for each person. Some people have been sober for five years and want to show that. For others, it's symbolic or mysterious.

Darrin Walters

It's very symbolic. It indicates that monetary policy is back to normal and investors are discounting possible future rate hikes.

Susumu Kato

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

Richard Avedon

Yes, there is a symbolic component to this initiative. But although there's a symbolic component, there will be far-reaching benefits to it, and it will make a distinct and tangible difference.

Fred Elbel

It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces doesn't want to be in a position where anyone might say she has divided loyalties. I don't believe for a second she would have had them, but symbols are important.

John Aimers

The BOJ policy shift marks a symbolic step toward the normalization of the Japanese economy. The central bank will eventually move to raise short-term rates from zero, and that's a necessary process for Japan to achieve sustainable economic growth.

Teizo Taya

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The art of Native Americans is integrated into the functional. Many times the designs have symbolic or even magical meanings.

Peter Jacobs

This game was symbolic of how we played the last four years. We were down early, but kept fighting back and played courageous. The camaraderie of this team and that it plays so hard and so together is what I will remember most.

Joe Herber

It's an allegorical kind of piece symbolic of many different times.

Christine Seitz

No single person will receive enough to genuinely change their life. This money is symbolic of the fact that while you were still alive, people cared enough to forge a legal resolution.

Burt Neuborne

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Anais Nin

Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbolic of those sacrifices, ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice.

Frank Gribbon

The lobbying on CNOOC was particularly intense on both sides, ... It was really symbolic of the problems that we are having defining what our relationship with China will be in the future.

Rick Larsen

We're looking into a possible destabilization attempt. It could be part of symbolic violence, because what could be the purpose in shooting the building at that time of the day?

Vidal Querol

The security and design features are state of the art and user-friendly. Design elements are symbolic of the freedom we cherish as a nation.

Michael Lambert

We weren't trying to pick the 10 most important days. We challenged people to come up with days that weren't obvious and that caused significant change, whether long lasting or symbolic.

Susan Werbe

The Walkman has long been a symbolic and strategic product for Sony, but it has now turned into just one item that should be produced overseas due to labor costs.

Masayuki Hoshina

This turning over the ground for me is a symbolic gesture of being able to raise something back on that ground of glory and beauty.

Dan Mckinney

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Robert Mckillop

There is something symbolic about physically opening a school that encourages people to come back.

Sajan George

He came into our locker room that first time, and everybody was just kind of sitting there. The first thing he did was give us all his cell-phone number. He told us to call him any time, anywhere, no matter what the issue was. It was a little thing, but to me, that helped a lot. It was sort of symbolic. He was trying to gain our trust right there at the beginning.

Jacob Burtschi

It's a symbolic gesture. Nobody actually, officially named a star.

Charles Chafer

This boycott is symbolic - one game is not going to cripple the club financially.

Oliver Houston

The lilies are symbolic of both life and death. It's particularly fitting during the Christian Holy Week that we remember those whose lives were not able to bloom because of the despair they felt from their church's teachings on homosexuality.

Haven Herrin

Faith has always been one of several primary themes in art. In ancient civilizations, the grandeur of their cities and everything they did was symbolic of their beliefs.

Susan Hood

The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in the face for the Europeans.

Ali Ansari

The fact that it's now a two-way agreement is symbolic and a positive step that may lead to further cooperation. A currency swap is still just a safety net for countries in the case of crisis, but I'm hopeful that this will lead to more forward-looking policy initiatives about how to get private- sector money flowing in the region.

Atsushi Nakajima

The logo is symbolic of the state of North Carolina. If somebody's standing 50 to 100 feet away and they see it, they know that lottery tickets are probably on sale in that store.

Tom Shaheen

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, ... The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

Benjamin Wright

You stand before the Lord to determine your final destination. It's very symbolic in that you will have the heaven and hell sides. The characters come out and stand before the throne of judgement, where they're held accountable for their actions. It's quite a moving scene.

Scarlett Knight

We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.

Tony Morris

You could tell another story - they could run off together and live in a more liberal place. But I think because he is essentially made out of pieces lying around a room, he's symbolic rather than real in many ways.

Matthew Bourne

The younger children are when you start this, the more it becomes part of what you do as a family. Over time, it becomes a haven within the family. The meal itself becomes symbolic of what a family does for its members: You nourish each other.

Miriam Weinstein

There are 14 stations where you stop and pray and read the religious and symbolic meanings of each station.

Marion Ferry

The government undertook the quarantine policy as a symbolic gesture. They were under pressure from the business community to demonstrate to their trading partners and political partners that they could contain the disease.

John Tayman

As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

Judy Garland

It will be a symbolic step of life from Earth, leaving Earth, and growing somewhere else.

Chris Mckay

It's time for symbolic gestures. The president is going to have to do a lot more than a 25-minute flyover.

John Zogby

The fact that she is a woman does have a symbolic and motivating effect for other women to get involved in politics. Already it has galvanized women who never thought they would enter politics.

Joan Browne

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

Pamela Anderson

As she walked and pondered her future, she saw a sign that told her she was on a dead end. The street, she believed, was symbolic of the direction in which she saw her life headed. At that moment, she made a decision that would chart a new course for her.

Margo Mong

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Ted Ludwig

This is largely symbolic. The students are getting very excited. I can say I would be amazed if they all didn't want to come out and see the progress, but it's just not safe right now. Every so often we will have opportunities for the students to visit and see the progress.

Nick Healy

It's largely symbolic. I don't think that it will have practical effect.

Tom Riley

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

David Kirk

It's like some sort of ordinary filing system for the mechanics of government, as opposed to a symbolic celebration and insight into what the state is all about. We have more appropriate buildings for our baseball and football teams than we do for out seat of governance.

Vernon Swaback

It's an honor to host the Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup, in my opinion, is the most symbolic and well-known trophy in sports.

Dan Chapman

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forward, two steps back strategy the regime has perpetrated on the entire country.

Debbie Stothard

It's very symbolic, with allusions to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Elisha Parry

A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.

Elizabeth Spelke