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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. -- Candice Bergen
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. -- Peter McWilliams
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing. -- Sigmar Polke
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. -- Deepak Chopra
Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none. -- Kathryn Minshew
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. -- Albert Schweitzer
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. -- Joan Didion
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. -- Taylor Swift
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me. -- Hillary Clinton
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. -- Warren Farrell
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards. -- Elizabeth McGovern
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. -- Craig Venter
The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day. -- Jeremy Luke
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. -- Herbert Croly
People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things. -- Jon Runyan
I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people. -- Sam Hunt
I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment? -- Whitley Strieber
... life, by definition, is never still. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans. -- Candice Bergen
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein
The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is. -- Demetri Martin
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others. -- George H. W. Bush
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others. -- George H. W. Bush
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. -- Jo Beverley
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life -- William Ellery Channing
Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss. -- Amor Towles
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. -- Pat Barker
Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. -- Ann Patchett
Never accept anyone's definition for your life. I'm a testimony of grace. Do your small things in your own way -- Kingsley ofosu-Ampong
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. -- Caroline Myss
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life. -- Sarah Dessen
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you. -- Neale Donald Walsch
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It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead. -- Jay Leno
I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work. -- Brandi Carlile
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From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. -- George H. W. Bush
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything. -- Jim James
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life. -- Paul Ryan
If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving. -- Randeep Hooda
I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. -- Warren Farrell
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition. -- Aristotle
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty. -- James Dobson
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where. -- Laurence Sterne

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