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Archetypal Quotes
On timeless forms, universal stories, and recurring patterns.
These quotes use 'archetypal' to describe universal stories and patterns, from star-crossed lovers as an archetypal romance to the human brain described as an archetypal complex system. Readers drawn to big-picture thinking may also enjoy our Attention quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
- Blonde
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020