quotes about Totems
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You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
-- Andrew BogutSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
-- Andy Roddick -
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
-- Barry Zito -
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
-- David Lindsay-Abaire -
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
-- Douglas Coupland -
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
-- Emily Carr -
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 -
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
-- J. Paul Getty -
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It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.
-- Jim Cramer -
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
-- Karl Marx -
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
-- Norman Jewison -
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
-- Sitting Bull -
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
-- Sylvia Browne -
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.
-- Ted AndrewsSource : Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.13, Llewellyn Worldwide
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
-- Thomas SzaszSource : Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.65, Transaction Publishers