Arthur Kemp Quotes

It is said, in fact, that the definition of a white South African is “someone who would rather be murdered in their bed than make it.”

Arthur Kemp

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• People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Perfection
  • Definition

• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Photographer
  • Definition
  • Documentary

• That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one: firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Confidence
  • Vote
  • Definition

• I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Grandmother
  • Definition

• I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Different
  • Definition
  • Palatable

• I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Definition

• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Brain
  • Thoughts
  • Model

• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Consciousness

• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Up
  • Greatness
  • Definition

• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Positive
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

• This individual will not be on this planet mocking us, lecturing us, and heckling us and making fun of our children that he murdered. Don't worry.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Children
  • Planet
  • Murdered

• If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Body
  • Infinite
  • Definition

• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Next
  • Consider

• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Jail
  • Murdered
  • Wrestled

• People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

  

  Harold Evans
  • People
  • Camera
  • Murdered

• Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Home
  • Lives
  • Definition

• Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Definition

• Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Achievement
  • Computer
  • Conclusion

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

  

  Edward Barbanell
  • Disabilities

• It is said, in fact, that the definition of a white South African is “someone who would rather be murdered in their bed than make it.”

  

  Arthur Kemp
  • Definition
  • Murdered
  • White African