Somebody’s going to have to come up with a definition of what the alt-right is.
The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It’s mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you call them a neo-liberal. Because otherwise, there is no concrete definition to the term.
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
A ‘human right’ is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what’s normal and what’s right and what’s wrong.
Many men think they’re playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word ‘loser.’
That’s what the new definition of racist is: It’s a conservative that’s winning an argument!
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the ‘what,’ but it certainly is not the ‘why.’
By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.
I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that’s the definition of a coup.
If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you’d probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody’s definition of carnage and evil is different.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they’re passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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.
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that’s humanly true.
Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they’re the very definition of love.
AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.
I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a ‘soul’ and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.
We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to be the definition of loving our neighbour.
If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it’s the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
I always say that in my career as an actress, I’ve always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.
The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.
The definition of political cinema is one I don’t agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.
I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward – a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.
I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That’s why I like TV more.
Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
