Quotes About Definition

But crucially, the difficulties surrounding racial classification also meant that definitions of black and white remained indeterminate.

First, the idea of 'race' contains both biological and cultural elements, for example skin colour, religion, and behaviour. Second, the biological and cultural appear to combine in variable proportions in any definition of a racial group, depending upon the group and the historical period in question. And racial status, as in the 'whitening' of Jews, the Irish, and others, is subject to political negotiation and transformation.

Who defined me? My culture, a culture of mercy, a living codex. I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

uno siempre es más hermoso cuando hay un término para designarlo, cuando posee una palabra sólo para él. El lenguaje es menos práctico que la estética.

En vérité, on passe son temps à lutter contre la terreur du vivant. On s'invente des définitions pour y échapper : je m'appelle machin, je bosse chez chose, mon métier consiste à faire ci et ça.

Poi riparte il tran tran. A ciascuno il suo: caffè-sigaretta, tè-toast o cane-guinzaglio, il percorso di tutti noi è organizzato in modo che si abbia meno paura possibile. In realtà, passiamo il nostro tempo a lottare contro il terrore della vita. Per sfuggirgli, inventiamo definizioni: mi chiamo tizio, sgobbo per conto di caio, il mio lavoro consiste nel fare questo e quello.

As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can't sell a weapon, and here's how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, 'See, this isn't subject to the limitation.'

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.