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• My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

  Sharon Tate

  Love Is, Definition Of Love, Feels

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

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• I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  Gabrielle Union

  Black, Urban, Kind

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• There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hype, Deceit, Hundred

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• I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

  Emma Watson

  Writing, School, Names

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• Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". Interview with Lev Grossman, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Balance, Needs

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  Walter Winchell

  Movie, Hollywood, Contracts

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• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Expectations, Textbooks

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  Felix Dennis

  Bullying, America, Empires

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• I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

  Alber Elbaz

  Morning, Weekend, Dinner

  "How I get dressed" by Alber Elbaz, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

  Martin Filler

  Character, Style, Towers

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• Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

  Anurag Kashyap

  People, Entertainment, Has Beens

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• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Heart, Thinking

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'It's hard to kill. Maybe that's why his hand was shaking'" by Kamila Shamsie, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

  Lucy Grealy

  Giving, Doe, Shapes

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• Character is that which can do without success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Character, Humility

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• Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Growth, Language, Miserable

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• I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

  Michael Chabon

  Falling In Love, Men, Entering

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Wonder Boys”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Simple, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Hard Work

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Home, Guilt, Cost

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.405, Hachette UK

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• To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

  Robert Harris

  Brave, Firsts, Be Brave

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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• If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

  James C. Collins

  Mean, Power, Greatness

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• In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Dark, Cpr

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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