My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it’s not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.
I don’t know how one actually would define obscenity. I’m sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
In the past, people have had to hire lawyers or consultants to try to figure out whether or not their property contains a federal waterway. We want to make sure that the definition is clear and concise.
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.
That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.
We define ourselves as intelligent. That’s odd, because we’re doing the definition – We’re creating our own definition and saying, ‘We are intelligent!’
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous people in this country. It’s bad enough whatever you want to call it.
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.
I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can’t really ask for more than.
Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn’t meant to convince anybody of anything.
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don’t go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
I’ve never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of ‘risque’ is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many things in my shows that could be considered risque… at the time… right up until my 90s.
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
I just don’t believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don’t like. Now if I don’t like it, I just go, ‘I don’t like this.’ It’s way fairer.
Paradigm shifts, particularly in diplomacy and security issues, are, by definition, major undertakings.
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There’s no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it’s like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
If I don’t go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it’s nearly all weights work to help with definition.
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
‘We don’t torture’ is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
That’s the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.
The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR – the great communicator leaders – is that they’re actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won’t understand it or they wouldn’t need to be using it.
We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.
Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason – a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system – for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Because of ‘Line Of Duty’s proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult to learn, and require lots of concentration to sustain them across shooting.
Entertainment’s definition has been reduced to making people happy.
Learning to love in the way someone wants to be loved is far more the definition of love than just loving in any way.
Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn’t my definition of the ‘pinnacle of motorsport.’
When people meet me, and I’m generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they’re almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.
My core definition of success is my family. They provide me with all the support I need to feel good, both in and outside of my career.
Han Solo has always been – and I think for a lot of people, too – this iconic character who’s the absolute definition of cool.
In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can’t even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.
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.
By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.
I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.
When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace – what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That’s the thing about grace. It’s like springtime. You can’t put it in a single sentence definition, and you can’t exhaust it.
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
We take what’s shown on television as the truth, and it isn’t. News isn’t even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn’t that what we’re watching on the new – it’s entertainment.
A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‘not complex or complicated; sincere.’
There’s the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who’s afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that’s my problem with my fellow liberals.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
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.
