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• Someone yelled at me once, ‘You never write about yourself.’ People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I’m everywhere, just like we all are.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

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• The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are.

  Chogyam Trungpa

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• 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

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• Definition is the death of discovery.

  Tom Shadyac

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• I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I’m not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn’t.

  Diane Sawyer

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• But only ‘rich’ people by definition have the ‘extra’ money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that ‘extra’ money away – and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

  Terry Savage

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• That seems to be the definition of ‘novel’ for me: a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

  George Saunders

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

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• I don’t think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

  Tom Stoppard

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• 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

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• My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people’s definitions are.

  Jimmy Kimmel

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

  Barry Sonnenfeld

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• Democrats’ definition of “rich” – always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.

  Steve Steckler

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• 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

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• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  Felicity Huffman

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• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn’t died yet.

  Tom Holt

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• Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

  Dennis Potter

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• To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

  Georges Braque

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• Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

  Georg Hermes

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• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

  Gijs de Vries

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