Definitions Quotes - Page 15

• You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Government, Communism

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• My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Character

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• The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

  Demetri Martin

  Adventure, Life Is, Boring

  Twitter post from Dec 06, 2011

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• Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.

  Aziz Ansari

  Running, Real, Struggle

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ Summer Catalog" (Season 2, Episode 20), www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Two, Trying

  "Porn misses out on its own xxx domain" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2007.

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• Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Impossible, Fixed

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• The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

  Edwin Land

  Art, Thinking, Needs

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• My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

  Idris Elba

  Bad Ass, Self, Sound

  "Idris Elba on ‘Luther’, Movie Possibilities, Neil Cross, His Upcoming Album, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I also love doing comedy. I just moved to L.A. last July. Before that, Vancouver is all about sci-fi, so I didn't get any comedy, whatsoever. But in L.A., people are like, "You don't look quirky enough," and I'm like, "I'm quirky. I'm the definition of quirky. How do you want me to look quirky." They have these little boxes that they put everyone in, so now I have to try to break the mold and get them to see me as being quirky.

  Tinsel Korey

  July, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

  Doug Stanhope

  Used, Ruined, Pornography

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• Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Giving, Documentaries, Facts

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

  Terry Pratchett

  Numbers, Hell, Unlimited

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2012). “Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles.

  Dana Gould

  Successful, Rolling, Stones

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• The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

  Gary Gulman

  Loneliness, Nerd, Hobbies

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• I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

  Dov Davidoff

  Success, Inseparable, Seems

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• Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?

  Dov Davidoff

  Children, World, Heard

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• If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

  Dov Davidoff

  Goodbye, Hug, Doing You

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• Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.

  Douglas Crimp

  Photography, Art, Environment

  Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.134, MIT Press

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• Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Events, Eternal

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• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• ...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Democrat, Evidence

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• Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

  Jeff Cooper

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Elements

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• There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

  Paul Begala

  Fighting, Lines, Sides

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• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

  Peter Kreeft

  Clever, Believe, Light

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• I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.

  Mark Suster

  Jobs, Risk, Trying

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