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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
Alex Lifeson

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
Maurice Saatchi

Write, Slow, Grammar

The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
Queen Rania of Jordan

Work, Family, American

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
David O. Selznick

Down, Accept, Sit

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
John Eaton

Music, Thinking, Action

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
John Drinkwater

Music, Good, Poetry

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
Lee R. Raymond

Business, Successful, Small

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount

Real, Rich, Poor

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Thom Mayne

Work, Time, Art

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
Thom Mayne

Meaning, Exist, Cultural

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Humor, Best, May

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.
Shawn Ryan

Great, Alone, Humble

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
Stephen Root

Best, Real, Else

Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas for season three, what we would call our golden ticket, in terms of a celebrity we would pair up with. We have a few in mind, and a few topics.
Emma Caulfield

Mind, Passion, Around

'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in terms of the speed with which I can prep a scene, and I'm excited to apply that.
Michael Pitt

Different, Excited, Scene

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.
Alicia Machado

Men, Attractive, Physical

I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
Patty Murray

Education, Time, Forward

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.
Reid Hoffman

Good, Fun, Important

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
Steven Hatfill

Work, Knowledge, Woman

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
Adam Clayton

Work, Important, Career

In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale

Nothing, Reality, Show

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
James Wood

Future, Humanity, Press

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
Jared Harris

Work, Used, Actor

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
Karl Urban

Work, End, Reality

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.
Stephen Hopkins

Help, Thought, Story

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
Ed Rendell

Second, Industry, Biggest

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
Ed Rendell

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Frederik Pohl

Future, Science, Place

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Walter Gilbert

Human, Another, Able

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser

Life, Understand, Cannot

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