Defined Quotes - Page 24

• I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Cartoon, Want

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

  Douglas Wilson

  Liars, Order, Tree

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.193, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

  Serena Williams

  Girl, Sports, Fun

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mistake, Errors, Data

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• I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

  Susan Meissner

  Girl, Kindness, Thinking

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• Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?

  David Edward

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

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• The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Simple, Reality, Self

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• TV and film has defined my entire life.

  Azita Ghanizada

  Tvs, Film

  "Azita Ghanizada Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 08, 2011.

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• I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Feels

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• The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Mean, Rights, Skills

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• When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.

  John Reader

  Men, Long, Belief

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• A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Long, Intuition, May

  P. D. Ouspensky (1913). “The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.

  Vince Poscente

  Bumps, Difficulty

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• Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.

  Shaun McNiff

  Creativity, Giving, Imagination

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• Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.

  David Cottrell

  Blessed, Airports, Skills

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• I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  School, Gender

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

  Kenny Loggins

  Careers, Judging, How You Feel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, World

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• You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

  Roland Orzabal

  Personality, Majors

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

  H. E. Bates

  Lying, Reason Why, Stories

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• We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

  Barack Obama

  Borders

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Being Strong, Character, Depth

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• Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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