Term Quotes
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I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. “Flat,” she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge.
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
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I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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I hate the term 'rom-com.'
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I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
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One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.
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In planetary terms, we're all downstream.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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We see the world in terms of our theories.
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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
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All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
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I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
