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defining

«I don't like defining myself. I just am.»
Author: Britney Spears (Singer) | Keywords: defining
«Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.»
«The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.»
Author: Jeff Melvoin | Keywords: defining, election, voting
«Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.»
«Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people»
«It is a way of defining turf-a sonic turf.»
Author: Thomas H. Fay | Keywords: defining, sonic, turf
«There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es»
«After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature.»
«The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism»
Author: George F. Will | Keywords: berlin, defining, socialism