Definitions Quotes - Page 36

• The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

  Howard Zinn

  Honesty, Lying, Data

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.30, South End Press

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• People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cute, Baby, Powerful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.54, Crown Archetype

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• Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

  Art Spiegelman

  Polemics, Wells, Convince

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality.

  Rick Santorum

  Dog, Children, Men

  "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

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• I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

  Pete Seeger

  Spiritual, Atheist, Stars

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Hurt, Passion

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• You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

  Kellan Lutz

  Wish, I Can

  Twitter post from Sep 13, 2011

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• Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Omnipotence, Mixtures, Architecture

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• Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Independent, Film, Torture

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

  Ron Paul

  Limits, Should

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• To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Sexy, Age

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Revenge, Believe, Teaching

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• Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It's really just shutting out the noise.

  Laurel Holloman

  Beautiful, Who I Am, Grace

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• Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Artist

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• When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

  Volkmar Wentzel

  Fall, Night, Light

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• Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at that story and see whether or not a character works, whether or not a character needs further definition.

  Stephen Coonts

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

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• The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

  Eliot Coleman

  Technology, Garden, Erosion

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• The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

  Kenneth Oakley

  Men, Views, Tools

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• One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

  Katrina Kenison

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Relationship, Happiness, Peace

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• The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

  John Burnside

  Bears, Might, Pages

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• The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

  Leith Anderson

  Simple, Evangelism, Knows

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• Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Dream, Order, Indulge In

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• Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

  George W. Bush

  Violence, Succeed, Definition Of Success

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• My definition of success is control.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Success, Definition Of Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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