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I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political. -- Suzanne Vega
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious. -- Kim Kardashian
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. -- Daniel Yergin
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. -- Carlo Goldoni
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. -- Albert Einstein
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. -- Kevin Mitnick
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play. -- Coleman Hawkins
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. -- Lewis Mumford
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground. -- Michael Eisner
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. -- Adam Schiff
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature. -- Ted Dekker
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. -- John Ruskin
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way. -- John Liu
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all. -- Stephen Hunter
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. -- Seth Shostak
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans. -- John Yarmuth
I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading. -- Kara Swisher
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys. -- Tiger Woods
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. -- Barney Frank
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. -- Markus Wolf
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations. -- Stephen Lang
Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives. -- Gary Zukav
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.' -- John Podhoretz
Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff. -- Gray Davis
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power. -- Greg Graffin
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. -- William Safire
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. -- Benjamin Franklin
I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me. -- Susan Rice
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. -- Ingvar Kamprad
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil." -- Daniel Yergin
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. -- Hugh Blair
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it -- Oscar Wilde
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas. -- Steve Case
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian. -- Denis Hayes
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous -- Robert McNamara
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play -- Coleman Hawkins
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family. -- Thomas S. Monson
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. -- Philip Pullman
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity. -- Anthony D. Williams
I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts. -- Barack Obama
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. -- Ambrose Bierce
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity. -- Robin Morgan
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity -- Vladimir Nabokov
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics. -- E. M. Forster
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them. -- Felix Klein
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.' -- Timothy Keller
Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment. -- Hillary Clinton
It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs. -- Mathias Dopfner
You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic. -- Michael Ramsey
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.] -- Carlo Goldoni
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species. -- E. O. Wilson
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign. -- Charles Krauthammer
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position. -- Richard Dawkins
I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that. -- Medea Benjamin
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images? -- Georges Didi-Huberman
I think his [Donald's Trump] objection would be to biased and unfair, which is not the way he characterize "Fox News" to me, anyway. But we're all looking for objective coverage. -- Kellyanne Conway
Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone. -- Peter Farb
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. -- Spiro T. Agnew
The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers. -- Ingvar Kamprad
By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it. -- Robert Bork
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up. -- Gene Wolfe
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. -- Samuel Smiles
...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon... -- Peter Lesley
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal. -- James Henry Hammond

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