Defined Quotes - Page 19

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Paul Weller

Football, Kids, Clothes

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The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

John Sculley

Communication, Technology, Iphone

Interview with Chris Brennan, medium.com. April 15, 2015.

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Aristotle

Mean, May, Persuasion

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

Paul Schrader

White, Quality, Noir

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I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

Nicki Minaj

Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

Bill Drayton

Successful, Organization, Working Together

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Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.

Amy Jo Martin

Believe, School, Media

"Your Social Score Is the New Credit Score" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

John Bonifaz

Rights, Years, Citizens United

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Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

Jonas Salk

Wise, Judgment, Capacity

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A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
is a master key to stress-free productivity.

David Allen

Stress, Keys, Lists

David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.102, Penguin

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Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

Christopher Logue

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Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

Victor J. Stenger

Real, Thinking, Self

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You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.

Randall Terry

Christian, Believe, Government

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Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

James A. Baldwin

May, Definitions, Way

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Talking, May

"Mathematics and Metaphysicians" (1901)

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In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.

Louise J. Kaplan

Children, Zambia, Childhood

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Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Johan Huizinga

Quality, Decay, Elements

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A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty, Revolution, Few Words

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There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

Molly Haskell

Literature, Film, Heroines

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The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.

Arthur Kroker

Real, Mean, Lakes

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Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Politeness, Benevolence, Wells

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Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

Richard Louv

Change, Children, Growing Up

Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.

Mia Hamm

Team, Mean, Winning

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There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.

Donald Davidson

Giving Up, Ideas, Philosopher

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I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

Rob Corddry

Writing, Decided

"The GQ&A: Rob Corddry". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 21, 2011.

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