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Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future of Hyderabad.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy for that child. It does not at all, under any circumstances, diminish their responsibility for what they do.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.