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Despite good intentions and best efforts, the stereotyping of Native Americans into narrow images is an undeniable consequence of choosing such names and symbols.

Bernard Franklin

In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

Kirsten Dunst

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Seth MacFarlane

We want to avoid a situation where the use of these symbols once again becomes normal.

Tomke Beddies

Absolutely be random in choosing your password and mix in random numbers and symbols, too. And change it often, like monthly.

Amanda Pires

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

John Wesley Powell

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

Michael Enzi

I always have a hard time answering this one. There are some symbols in there that maybe be misinterpreted that way, but as far as the game itself, it's just a game. But anything that you would spend any more time on than you would reading scripture or focusing on your relationship with Christ is going to have the same effect.

Daniel Howell

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Brooke Warrick

Symbols can't be relieved of their historical freight.

David Weber

Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.

Placido Domingo

We wanted to take our investment into the community instead of doing monstrosity displays. We're creating symbols of relevance for the brand.

Kerri Martin

We're seeing a tremendous amount of activity overseas, whether it's in Asia or the Middle East. For countries that are emerging on the economic scene, very tall buildings are symbols of their economic strength.

Ron Klemencic

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.

Mark Rothko

SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that ea.

Ambrose Bierce

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Thomas J. Peters

Everybody is treated the same way. You have dramatically eroded the symbolism, and after all, this is the war of ideas and symbols as much as the war of substance.

David Rivkin

These were the same symbols in the Heart of Spain paintings, so the exhibit and windows complemented each other.

Dot Davis

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

Roger Scruton

The United Nations must pass binding resolutions obliging all countries to respect religions and religious symbols similar to the anti-Semitism laws.

Abdelaziz Belkhadem

Although the most common symbols found on a dashboard conform to international symbols, the layout might be very different .... ignoring an unfamiliar warning light -- even if the car seems to be performing normally -- could cost you thousands.

Lloyd East

Supply chain management can become much more streamlined with Symbol's new location-enabled RFID mobile computers. The ability to monitor the location of their RFID-tagged products provide our customers with a distinct advantage over their competitors - from being able to improve their ability to fill orders to cutting costs associated with manual tracking activities.

Phil Lazo

I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.

Howard Gardner

People like to bring back the old stuff. These are all classic brands so they have a history ... it is sort of reintroducing the brand to a new generation, using the old symbols.

Jack Trout

A law on religious symbols in the school environment could stigmatize a whole community.

Dalil Boubakeur

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

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

William Cullen Bryant

They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were symbols of the ancient world.

Bernard Weber

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

Sir Arthur Eddington

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Anya Seton

Company logos, for example, are meant to be recognized, and we found that logos have a high correlation. Shorthand systems, which are meant to give a note-taker speed at the expense of a commonly recognizable system of symbols, do not.

Mark Changizi

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

Francis X. Clines

With two of our state's symbols, the buffalo and the sunflower, the Kansas quarter celebrates our state's past and is a representation of the heritage and traditions of our state.

Kathleen Sebelius

This restraining order is telling us not to do things we don't do anyway, A memo recently distributed to parents prohibited students from including religious symbols on holiday gifts and cards, including ones related to St. Valentine's Day.

Kris Taylor

Firewalls, strong passwords, passwords need to be between six and eight characters long, try to include numbers, uppercase and lowercase characters and symbols.

Mike Willis

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

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

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fatand get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.

Reed Markham, Phd

Seabirds are ideal symbols for ocean conservation, ... Because they live in a variety of habitats-including oceans, islands, estuaries and beaches-they can show visitors how all coastal life is connected and spark new interest in coastal conservation. Long-term conservation success hinges on public understanding and community support.

Stephen Kress

I felt completely betrayed by the State and the public. My covenant with the state has ended. The symbols of the State of Israel no longer move me. I know that they are empty of content. I felt mourning, but a bit of happiness that I was not a part of them.

Avidan Weitzman

The police uniform and the firearm we carry are symbols of our legal authority.

Bill Blair

We talk to the kids for a few minutes about the piece and ask them what they see. Then we get them to compare the image in the piece with their own lives and ask them about symbols they see in it that correspond with symbols from their daily lives.

Ben Clark

There was going to be no more poverty, no more ignorance, no more disease. Art Deco reflected that confidence, vigor and optimism by using symbols of progress, speed and power.

Robert Mcgregor

Black theater is concerned about the totality of humanity. If people actually were aware of the symbols, they would know that it's just as wide open as it can be.

Larry Leon Hamlin

I think there is tastelessness out there. Even though people might have the license and the freedom that permits free speech, it is unfortunate when the use of religious symbols shows a complete disrespect for the culture and the people.

Ron Buford

America is a country of symbols, and symbolically, this has been a really good demonstration of how the people will get involved to solve the immigration problem.

Roberto Reveles

These stripes may have been a way to emulate the status of Roman society, but it had a different meaning for them. They adapted symbols from non-Jewish society and gave them Judaic meaning. That may be one of the great secrets of Judaism.

Richard Freund

When I came in here and saw this thing, the symbols, looking the way it looked, ... I wanted to get right in there and taxi it out.

Paul Tibbets

Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge that for such a long period I was the supreme world tennis champion.

Bjorn Borg

These are the symbols of the old Japan which was closed to outsiders, ... They will continue to be serious irritants. ... Unless Japan solves these problems, it gives a lie to the claim that Japan is being market driven.

Richard Fisher

Symbols have meaning. And she did meaningful things.

Donald Story

We're ruining ourselves around the world by using inappropriate verbiage and symbols.

Gloria Starr

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

Eric Temple Bell

In general, these are not people who have much background on Japan and do not necessarily share the view that we need to work very hard at keeping the symbols of close relationship at quite a high level.

Edward Lincoln