Defined Quotes - Page 37

• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thinking, Opposites, Males

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Truth, Science, Religion

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not what they do. For only when a brand has defined itself and its core values can it identify causes or social responsibility initiatives that are in alignment with its authentic brand story.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Stories, Want

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• Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

  John Mayer

  Failure, Who I Am, Hendrix

  "100 Greatest Artists. Jimi Hendrix" by John Mayer, December 2, 2010.

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• Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

  Alanis Morissette

  Bones, Standards, Sticking Out

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

  Steven Morrissey

  Tedious

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• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Numbers, France, Cuisine

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• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Heart, Cutting, Years

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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• We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, America, Done

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  Wilfred Owen

  Funny, Ambition, Numbers

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  Joe Perry

  Break Through, Trying, Sound

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• I'm not defined by where I came from.

  Katy Perry

  Agree To Disagree

  "Katy Perry, Superstar!". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 27, 2009.

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• I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Hatred, Parent

  "Katy Perry, Superstar!". Interview with, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 27, 2009.

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• You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

  Rick Perry

  Class, Height, Exceptional

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

  Liz Phair

  Kids, Who I Am, Important

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, Order, Things In Life

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Fans, Moguls

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• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  Harold Prince

  Thinking, Musical, Contemporary

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• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Men, Islam, Submission

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Government, America

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• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fake People, Math, Talking

  "Mathematics and Metaphysicians" (1901)

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