Defined Quotes - Page 31

• George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it - but Bush had a determination, and had a very clearly defined set of principles. You knew exactly where he stood.

  Frank Luntz

  Determination, People, Principles

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• If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.

  Darren Hardy

  Honesty, Liars, Stress

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• I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

  Miranda Kerr

  Men, Individuality, Roles

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Challenges, Democracy, Sound

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Beautiful, Believe, Book

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.

  Vandana Shiva

  Native American, Land, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Design

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When we do go to combat, it should be with a defined mission and a plan for withdrawal.

  Joni Ernst

  Withdrawal, Should, Missions

  Source: hotair.com

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• Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

  Arianna Huffington

  Two, Giving, Balance

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

  Arianna Huffington

  Way, Humans, Human Beings

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This function is not well-defined. The Constitution does not set down a road map. It does not require hearings. In fact, it does not even require questioning on your understanding of the Constitution nor the role of the Supreme Court.

  Mike DeWine

  Advice, Understanding, President

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Common Sense, Cliche

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

  William McDonough

  Zero, Carbon, Positively

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• We are defined by how we place our attention.

  Diane Ackerman

  Attention

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• Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.

  Edith Widder

  Doctors, Ecosystems, Support Systems

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• Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Ocean, Planets, Our Planet

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• Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Talking, People, Community

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• I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Stories, Normal

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.

  Eric Andre

  Hurt, Motivation, Thinking

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.

  Oliver Stone

  Style, Matter, I've Changed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I also have an amazing codesigner and an amazing partnership with New York & Co. The exciting part of growing together and having this kind of long-term relationship is that they can anticipate where I'm going with something. So our relationship is very defined, it's a true partnership so I'm not doing it all by myself.

  Eva Mendes

  New York, Long, Together

  Source: wwd.com

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• Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.

  Roberto Esposito

  Country, Philosophical, Europe

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• Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Meditation, Active, Eternal

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• I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

  Bill Maher

  Political, Sensitivity, Correctness

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• When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Reform, Drs, Lasts

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