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No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.
Montel Williams

Single, Person, Country

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
William Kirby

Science, Political, Question

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer

Women, Men, Best

Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Ben Nelson

Marriage, Woman, Between

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
Ichiro Suzuki

Success, Someone, Else

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd

God, Prayer, Hanging

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler

Individual, Divided, Million

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
Edward Felten

Legal, Important, Themselves

CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
Joe Barton

Normal, Co2, Term

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
Roberta Williams

Game, Story, Adventure

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
John Podesta

Work, Poverty, Might

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld

Time, Around, Worked

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price

Art, Freedom, Mind

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
George Tenet

Work, Hope, United

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, Beauty, Everything

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
Bruce Robinson

Someone, Made, Film

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell

Poetry, Read, Possible

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.
Alex Meraz

Sexy, Someone, Themselves

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons

History, Movies, Down

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.
Elon Musk

Challenge, Number, Taking

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.
Michael Apted

Time, Money, Great

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
Preston Manning

School, American, Whole

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

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Malcolm McDowell

Impossible, Insanity, Insane

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc Bloch

Facts, Incapable, Observing

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Nancy Johnson

Law, High, President

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
Dorothea Benton Frank

Great, Book, Fire

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Tom Holt

Best, Someone, Died

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
Salvatore J. Cordileone

Life, Marriage, Home

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.
Kevin Sorbo

Saying, Two, Wrong

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