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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Silence

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Liberty, Same

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, True

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

Someone, Thinking, Tell

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Friendship, Marriage

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins

Life, Success, Pain

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

Government, Nothing, Sometimes

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Liv Tyler

Beauty, Beautiful, Someone

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Working, Hell

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Nature, Law, Same

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve Jobs

Technology, Old, Worth

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton

Men, Fear, Brave

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul

Marriage, Liberty, Social

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand

God, Power, Beyond

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Government, Reason, Slavery

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

American, President, Run

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Men, Children

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Bill Copeland

Work, Women, Done

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Great, Wish

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy Graham

Marriage, God, Woman

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Bad

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
Hillary Clinton

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell

Give, Able, Might

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi

Work, Real, Done

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

Wisdom, Wise, Give

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Accept

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

Good, Bad, Past

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin

Give, Possible, Stage

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
Peter Steele

Poetry, Bad, Sing

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