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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
Elizabeth Berg
Dreams
Elvis
True
Coming
Lot
Being
Them
Things
Symbolic
That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
G. Willow Wilson
Family
Relationship
You
Culture
Men
Husband
Met
Way
Defines
Arabic
Scarf
Something
Guy
Never
Head
Than
Average
Average Guy
Meant
Your
Street
Differently
Symbolic
The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.
Geoffrey Hinton
Intelligence
Logical
Big
Changed
Paradigm
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Some
Nets
Structure
Neural
Idea
Like
Look
Representation
Internal
Reasoning
Symbolic
Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.
Gil Marks
Every
Foods
None
Holiday
Much
Fare
Unique
Symbolic
By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.
Herbert A. Simon
Mathematics
Knowledge
Together
Science
Training
Political
Economics
Broad
Latter
Systematically
Statistics
Logic
Able
Self
Advanced
Study
Combination
Well
Continuing
Mathematical
Political Science
Formal
Gain
Skills
Reasonable
Base
Symbolic
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Hugo Ball
Language
Paradise
Long
Sign
Absorb
Real
View
Things
Images
Symbolic
Consequence
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.
James Buchan
Hope
Desperate
Suicide
Gaza
Distant
Prestige
East
Security
Districts
More
Small
Gives
Both
Brutal
Most
Still
However
West
Bloody
Than
Current
Middle
Middle East
Regarded
Romantics
Little
Victories
Bin
Bombers
Symbolic
Chance
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.
James T. Walsh
Culture
Financial
Try
Will
Power
Important
Believe
Else
Our
Strike
Bet
Get
American
American Culture
Where
Centers
Place
Little
Victories
Them
Should
Media
Symbolic
Symbolism
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
Jane Smiley
Ride
Will
Degree
Drive
Other
Our
Project
Ways
Easy
Silent
Some
Admit
Horses
Allow
Perhaps
Ideas
Make
Greater
Readily
Train
Than
Any
Them
Us
Reserved
Species
Symbolic
I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
Jasmila Zbanic
Money
Power
Stays
Something
Emotionally
Make
Audience
Am
Manage
Screening
Want
After
Them
Successful
Means
Works
Awards
Film
Symbolic
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
Me
Language
Seen
Feeling
Energy
Type
Ways
Crossed
Through
Over
Hearing
Person
Information
Which
Basic
Symbolic
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
Joyce Carol Oates
Culture
Sometimes
Community
Something
House
Sort
Gothic
Often
Estate
Large
Whole
Novels
Symbolic
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
Kit Williams
You
Dog
Impossible
Circle
See
Simply
Catch
Never-Ending
Look
Closely
Interconnected
Which
Rabbit
Symbolic
My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!
Kristan Higgins
Love
Cleaning
Eyes
World
Safety
Enjoy
Too
Rule
Alive
Wear
Having
Like
Because
Always
Yes
Being
Seat
Symbolic
Desire
Two
Belt
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Life
Attitude
Great
Strictly
Some
Poetry
Said
Always
Itself
Cannot
Epic
Epic Poetry
Manner
Symbolic
Symbolize
It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.
Lena Waithe
Took
Moonlight
Out
Hand
La
Literally
Land
Moment
Oscar
Symbolic
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.
Lester Holt
Yourself
Too
Liberation
Kind
Mustache
Shaving
Get
Did
Moment
Deep
Reinvent
Symbolic
Chance
Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance.
Letitia James
Will
Important
Significance
Carry
Practical
Official
Establishing
Holidays
Symbolic
Two
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Culture
People
Values
Think
See
Concerned
Traditional
Traditional Values
Very
Where
Form
Chinese
Chinese People
Symbolic
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
Martin Jacques
Enormous
Significance
Purchasing
Cost
Small
Been
May
Land
Rover
Wider
Symbolic
Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
Marvin Ammori
Democracy
Change
People
Law
Unjust
Other
Ways
Criticize
Ability
Able
Laws
Point
Powerful
Without
Them
Convince
Should
Symbolic
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
Architecture
Between
Pragmatic
Equity
Any
Function
Symbolic
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.
Michael Pollan
Food
Garden
Big
Spring
Organic
White
White House
Gave
Obama
Case
Lawn
Thrilled
Vegetable
Soon
Powerful
Nevertheless
House
Michelle
Michelle Obama
Movement
After
Inauguration
Act
Planted
Symbolic
I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Myself
Situation
Else
Introduce
Table
Had
Behind
Anybody
Anybody Else
Where
Want
Successful
Fascist
Symbolic
Playing
So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
Nate Parker
Faith
Leadership
People
Become
Bitter
Absence
Purpose
Often
Representative
Resentful
Symbolic
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.
Pamela Anderson
You
Moving Forward
Amazing
Hair
Past
Kind
Bored
Reaction
Get
Getting
Just
Little
Moving
Cut
Your
Rid
Forward
Thing
Symbolic
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