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Tag Name "Definitions" (1072)

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It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.
Madonna Ciccone
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My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
Brian Aldiss
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As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
Kerry Washington
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
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Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.
Piero Ferrucci
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A milestone is less date and more definition.
Rands
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People often say to me, How come you don't want to be CEO of a company? And I tell them, I don't want to. I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?
Charlene Li
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A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then I've changed my definition about what lightning in a bottle means. I think it means that you wait for that surprising moment that you really didn't expect would happen, as good as it may have gone in rehearsal.
Don Scardino
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
James C. Collins
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
Lord Edward FitzGerald
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy
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I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.
Marya Hornbacher
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This was the definition of eternity it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
Terry Pratchett
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
Natalie Massenet
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Remy de Gourmont
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At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
Kurt Busiek
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Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”
Bell Hooks
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Truth by definition excludes.
Ravi Zacharias
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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
Anatol Rapoport
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Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Hal Duncan
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Octavia Butler
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