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Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
Kay Granger

Life, Human, Liberty

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
Emilio Estevez

Optimistic, Earnest

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

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
Brit Marling

Girl, Two, Worse

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

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
Trey Anastasio

Music, Fast, Changed

If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
Flavor Flav

Enemy, Means, Anyone

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
Warren Beatty

Republican, Says, Bush

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin

Good, Bad, Habits

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.
Jo Nesbo

Time, Good, Happy

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
John Hodgman

Mean, Dictionary, Correcting

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

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
Glenn Close

Trying, Play, Talent

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
Gijs de Vries

Terrorism, Lack, Global

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.
Reggie Watts

Open, Based, Definite

Definition is the death of discovery.
Tom Shadyac

Death, Discovery

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Selma Blair

Teen, Girl, Understand

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
Iggy Pop

Time, God, Parents

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang

Asking, Species, Embarrass

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'
Susan Sullivan

Happy, Mother, Joy

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
Andrew Bird

Words, Meaning, Guess

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
Abbas Kiarostami

Change, Find, After

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett

Book, Everyone, Often

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater

Beauty, Power, Beautiful

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A. R. Ammons

Become, Ways, Seeing

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson

Love, Teacher, Amazing

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
Saul Williams

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
Arthur C. Brooks

Money, Alone, Around

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
Diane Sawyer

Liberal, News, Excites

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