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On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.
Edward Witten

Understand, Hand, Theory

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Simple, May

I want to be defined by my own essence.
Kathy Bates

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
John Thune

Marriage, Woman, Between

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
Michael Polanyi

Cannot, Physics, Atomic

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.
Melanie Fiona

Music, Rock, Care

Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Hal Holbrook

Cannot, Mark, Twain

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
Charlie Hunter

Music, Market, Define

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.
Emma Caulfield

Mistakes, Succeed, Far

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
China Mieville

Sorry, Bad, Someone

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny

Through, Jazz, Poetic

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.
James T. Walsh

Today, Crisis, Able

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
Eliza Coupe

Funny, Character, Book

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.
Donal Logue

Work, Friend, Him

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
Harold Brodkey

God, Death, Real

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
Jill Clayburgh

Life, Woman, Down

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
Walter Mosley

Yourself, Live, Book

Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.
Deborah Harkness

Wine, Personal, Price

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.
Michael Arad

Country, Top, Ways

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
Trofim Lysenko

Struggle, Two, Between

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan

Politics, History, Social

We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'
Christina Hendricks

Wait, Hair, Expect

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Lawrence Kohlberg

Society, Whole, Action

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.
Dick Thornburgh

Government, Law, While

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
Dick Thornburgh

Law, Matters, Governed

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
Mark Pincus

Company, Choose

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
Samuel Wilson

Health, Become, Around

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor

Mind, Thinking, Few

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
Ben Edwards

Change, Others, Situation

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
Tyler Florence

Home, Within, Source

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