Totems Quotes - Page 2

• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Lost, Cult

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• Un gato negro que se cruza en tu camino significa que el animal se dirige a alguna parte.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiración, Divertido, Gato

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

  Rick Yancey

  Curse, Doom, Humans

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

  Lita Ford

  Giving Up, Moving, Rocks

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Hoy, cuando los fundamentalistas están insistiendo una vez más en que los fundamentos del fundamentalismo son fundamentales para que seamos el No. 1 en el tótem del Señor, es muy valiente de su parte invitar a la "atea residente" del centro de Missouri a compartir sus pensamientos con ustedes.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Brave, Atheism

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• More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.

  Seth

  Self, Personality, Use

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• I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Men, Keys

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 10, 2011

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• This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

  Eric Zorn

  Children, Safe, Firsts

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• He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

  Mijaíl Baryshnikov

  Animal, Looks, Made

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• Pero los naturalistas empiezan ahora a mirar más allá y a ver que debe haber algún otro principio que regule las infinitamente variadas formas de vida animal.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Principles, Looks

  Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Travels on the Amazon”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Blanco, Gente, Casa

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Player, Expectations

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• In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems.

  Joan Didion

  Long, People, Broken

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.44, Knopf

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• Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• Un "espejo de la muerte" de la cultura estadounidense: Brando, motos y cuero negro; Cristo, cadenas y cocaína. Una visión "elevada" del mito del motorista estadounidense. La máquina como tótem, del juguete al terror. Tánatos en cromo, cuero negro y vaqueros reventados.

  Kenneth Anger

  Espejos, vistas, vaqueros

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• Mi carrera siempre ha sido una de las cosas más importantes, pero después de tener un bebé te das cuenta de que baja en el tótem.

  Marion Jones

  Bebé, Carreras, Importante

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• I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

  William John Wills

  Ignorance, Animal, Vices

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.45, London : R. Bentley

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• The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

  H. Allen Smith

  Passion, Animal, Lists

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• Los Bumpus estaban tan abajo en el tótem evolutivo que ni siquiera figuraban en el famoso árbol genealógico de Darwin. Se habían endogamizado y encarnado y finalmente emergieron de las colinas de Kentucky como un remanente de la horda bárbara de Atila el Húngaro. Flick dijo que tenían pies palmeados y sólo tres dedos. Puede que fuera cierto.

  Jean Shepherd

  Familia, Kentucky, Pies

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• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  Dan Abrams

  Animal, Thinking, Different

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• Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Yahweh, Way, Used

  "Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton". Interview with Nathan Schneider, blogs.ssrc.org. September 17, 2009.

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• Salvar la vida de un animal para que sufra indefinidamente es algo que nunca aprobaría.

  Louis Leakey

  Animal, Order, Suffering

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• When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and large, the more roles, the greater the happiness. Parents were happier than nonparents, and workers were happier than nonworkers. Married people were much happier than unmarried people. Married people were generally at the top of the emotional totem pole.

  Faye J Crosby

  Happiness, Country, Work

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• No pretendía escribir sobre tótems ni sobre la búsqueda de personas. Intenté no limitarme, y esto es lo que me salió. Hay una gran cita de Auden: "Miro lo que escribo para ver lo que pienso".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Entrevista con Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. Mayo de 2005.

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• The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

  Tom Allen

  Ocean, Animal, Land

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