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What disappears is the idea that freedom of expression is the basis of democracy, we ’d like to be a metaphor for what is happening in Guatemala. – Luis Aceituno	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
It all kind of links back to journeys, both in life and in death and the ship being that kind of metaphor. – Laura Howarth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's a bit of an addiction metaphor here because you can't quit President Donald Trump cold turkey, they're going to find it's tough to move on because the stories will continue to play out. I mean, Stephen Colbert'll criticize every single thing that Biden does, and there's the story of the insurrection. So until all of that becomes resolved, President Donald Trump will still be a massive story for everybody, including late-night. – Bill Carter	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The homeland is a language and exile is a metaphor – Haimer abdou	added by haimerart_1 3 years ago
It's just such a great metaphor. They have built their entire reputation on the backs of someone else's hard work, cultural appropriation has always been a thing from Elvis, The Beatles and everybody who, as [ Isis ] says, is' putting blonde hair on it and calling it something different.'. – Peyton Reed	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This work is a metaphor of the relations between humans and technology. Sometimes the android will get crazy, human orchestras have to follow. But sometimes humans can cooperate very comfortably. – Keiichiro Shibuya	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was shaking in my boots since it was like getting a call from the Pope and he is coming to dinner, of course, a metaphor, but just to give( you) the idea of the gravity to me, personally. – Sterling Backus	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Of course, a metaphor, but just to give( you) the idea of the gravity to me, personally. – Read MoreBassi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In times of personal travails or great social upheaval such as during and between the two world wars, even artists who did not normally do religious themes turned to them as a metaphor for suffering and violence. – Francesca Boschetti	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My metaphor is : There's no reason to be in the car when the car crashes even if you love the car. – John Schnatter	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As I sit here today, I can't help but think, what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to. – Jon Stewart	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to engage with the reality of climate change in order to deal with it, the monster gives us a metaphor, a narrative through which we can do that. – Caroline Hickman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
[Godzilla] is this ever-useful metaphor for whatever kinds of existential threat we fear as a collective culture, whether its nuclear bombs or climate change. – Nathaniel Dominy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was so self-conscious about the nanny and the housekeeper that I didn't want them to hear me screaming in the living room, i think that that's such a metaphor of something for the existence of so-called well-off people that they're not really well-off -- they won't even scream in their own house. – Kanye West	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatly let go, this dragons roar can manifest through you. It is much bigger than the individual. – Shoryu Bradley	added by anonymous 6 years ago
We cloak it in metaphor -- instead of painting a very literal picture of the person sick in bed we have broader brush strokes and try to create some kind of fantastical environment that mimics that particular situation and within that fantastical environment you can change the circumstance and make them something more triumphant. if you are good friends someone, and you are with one another and have a very strong relationship I think it’s a wonderful and healthy thing to do to be supportive and be physically present and again turning all these emotions into something productive. Turning this darkness into something bright and positive or at least attempting to. – Troy Sanders	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The story of the animals at Caricuao is a metaphor for Venezuelan suffering. – Marlene Sifontes	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Cinema is a metaphor. So what is local becomes a metaphor. So I don't see a problem in making a very French film that at the same time, because it is very French, will become an international film. – Bruno Dumont	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The carnival is a real tradition in the North. What you have to do is look under these characters who are larger than life, cinema is a metaphor. So what is local becomes a metaphor. So I don't see a problem in making a very French film that at the same time, because it is very French, will become an international film. – Bruno Dumont	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's certainly not impossible but -- to use a sports metaphor from diving -- the degree of difficulty would be quite significant. – Edward Shumaker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's New Orleans. You know the saying here: 'Making groceries.' People are making lots and lots of groceries, and that's a metaphor for everything. the bill that just passed is not as bad as we thought. – David Akin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The name Manson has become a metaphor for evil, and there's a side of human nature that's fascinated by pure unalloyed evil. – Vincent Bugliosi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
At the time, I didn't. But looking back, I think that maybe the metaphor is not a good one, it should be strictly used. But in this case, it's absolutely appropriate because the Iranians are threatening the murder of millions of Jews. – Mike Huckabee	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You have civil wars, you have proxy wars. You have regional wars all in one, and these things have so many logs on the fire, to use the metaphor, that they ... burn and burn and burn for a long time. – Richard Haass	Found on CNN 9 years ago

What disappears is the idea that freedom of expression is the basis of democracy, we ’d like to be a metaphor for what is happening in Guatemala.

– Luis Aceituno

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

It all kind of links back to journeys, both in life and in death and the ship being that kind of metaphor.

– Laura Howarth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a bit of an addiction metaphor here because you can't quit President Donald Trump cold turkey, they're going to find it's tough to move on because the stories will continue to play out. I mean, Stephen Colbert'll criticize every single thing that Biden does, and there's the story of the insurrection. So until all of that becomes resolved, President Donald Trump will still be a massive story for everybody, including late-night.

– Bill Carter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The homeland is a language and exile is a metaphor

– Haimer abdou

added by haimerart_1
3 years ago

It's just such a great metaphor. They have built their entire reputation on the backs of someone else's hard work, cultural appropriation has always been a thing from Elvis, The Beatles and everybody who, as [ Isis ] says, is' putting blonde hair on it and calling it something different.'.

– Peyton Reed

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This work is a metaphor of the relations between humans and technology. Sometimes the android will get crazy, human orchestras have to follow. But sometimes humans can cooperate very comfortably.

– Keiichiro Shibuya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was shaking in my boots since it was like getting a call from the Pope and he is coming to dinner, of course, a metaphor, but just to give( you) the idea of the gravity to me, personally.

– Sterling Backus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Of course, a metaphor, but just to give( you) the idea of the gravity to me, personally.

– Read MoreBassi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In times of personal travails or great social upheaval such as during and between the two world wars, even artists who did not normally do religious themes turned to them as a metaphor for suffering and violence.

– Francesca Boschetti

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My metaphor is : There's no reason to be in the car when the car crashes even if you love the car.

– John Schnatter

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As I sit here today, I can't help but think, what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to.

– Jon Stewart

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need to engage with the reality of climate change in order to deal with it, the monster gives us a metaphor, a narrative through which we can do that.

– Caroline Hickman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[Godzilla] is this ever-useful metaphor for whatever kinds of existential threat we fear as a collective culture, whether its nuclear bombs or climate change.

– Nathaniel Dominy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I was so self-conscious about the nanny and the housekeeper that I didn't want them to hear me screaming in the living room, i think that that's such a metaphor of something for the existence of so-called well-off people that they're not really well-off -- they won't even scream in their own house.

– Kanye West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatly let go, this dragons roar can manifest through you. It is much bigger than the individual.

– Shoryu Bradley

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We cloak it in metaphor -- instead of painting a very literal picture of the person sick in bed we have broader brush strokes and try to create some kind of fantastical environment that mimics that particular situation and within that fantastical environment you can change the circumstance and make them something more triumphant. if you are good friends someone, and you are with one another and have a very strong relationship I think it’s a wonderful and healthy thing to do to be supportive and be physically present and again turning all these emotions into something productive. Turning this darkness into something bright and positive or at least attempting to.

– Troy Sanders

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The story of the animals at Caricuao is a metaphor for Venezuelan suffering.

– Marlene Sifontes

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Cinema is a metaphor. So what is local becomes a metaphor. So I don't see a problem in making a very French film that at the same time, because it is very French, will become an international film.

– Bruno Dumont

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The carnival is a real tradition in the North. What you have to do is look under these characters who are larger than life, cinema is a metaphor. So what is local becomes a metaphor. So I don't see a problem in making a very French film that at the same time, because it is very French, will become an international film.

– Bruno Dumont

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's certainly not impossible but -- to use a sports metaphor from diving -- the degree of difficulty would be quite significant.

– Edward Shumaker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's New Orleans. You know the saying here: 'Making groceries.' People are making lots and lots of groceries, and that's a metaphor for everything. the bill that just passed is not as bad as we thought.

– David Akin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The name Manson has become a metaphor for evil, and there's a side of human nature that's fascinated by pure unalloyed evil.

– Vincent Bugliosi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At the time, I didn't. But looking back, I think that maybe the metaphor is not a good one, it should be strictly used. But in this case, it's absolutely appropriate because the Iranians are threatening the murder of millions of Jews.

– Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have civil wars, you have proxy wars. You have regional wars all in one, and these things have so many logs on the fire, to use the metaphor, that they ... burn and burn and burn for a long time.

– Richard Haass

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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