Definitions Quotes
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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
S. I. Hayakawa
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I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
Rian Johnson
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If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
Dweezil Zappa
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
Haruki Murakami
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For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.
George Clooney
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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.
Artie Shaw
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I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica Jong
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
Martha Gellhorn
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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Andreas Gursky
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I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Tom Stoppard
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I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.
Faith Hill
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I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.
Tom DeLonge
Blink-182
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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
W. H. Auden
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Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.
P. J. O'Rourke
