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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Francois Hollande

Education, Work, Home

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
Jane Pauley

Keep, Growing, Longer

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.
Jane Pauley

Hate, Why, Picture

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
James Cash Penney

Job, Done, Through

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner

Marriage, Down, While

My definition of success is control.
Kenneth Branagh

Success, Control

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

Pain, Almost, Gentleman

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
James Bovard

Power, Friends, Dangerous

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown

Faith, True, Acceptance

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.
Wentworth Miller

Cool, Tell, Read

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

Free, Speech, Needs

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
Stockwell Day

Marriage, Human, Anyone

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day

Marriage, Good, Wife

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
Rita Dove

Alone, Before, Community

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio

True, Able, Skin

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

Genius, Taking, Capacity

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Ben Okri

Human, Humanity, Mean

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
Albert Brooks

Someone, Friend, Used

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

Pain, Almost, Gentleman

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
George Will

Marriage, Hope, Experience

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles

Good, Problem, Rather

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Attention, Language

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

God, Sense, Word

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Robert Fripp

Means, Quality, Present

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
Robert Fripp

Point, Knew, Either

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.
Robert De Niro

Good, Place, Stay

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Loni Anderson

Rejection, Acting, Maybe

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
William Barclay

Best, Nothing, Him

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
Gary Bauer

Change, Marriage, Sex

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Louis Dudek

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