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I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
First off, I absolutely hate the term 'trip-hop.' It was a term that made it seemed like I was trying to turn the music into something else. I was always influenced by New York hip-hop, since forever, since I was a kid.
~ Tricky
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
We should a hire a lawyer," I said. "A solicitor," Win said, correcting me. "We're in London. We don't use the term 'lawyer,' Myron. We say solicitor." I just looked at him, refraining from asking, How about the term "anal douche bag"? Do we use that in London?
~ Harlan Coben
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
~ Leonard Cohen
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
~ Jim Henson
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
~ Will Rogers
After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
~ Karen Mills
In recent years, the term "woke" has been widely used to describe those who've attained doctrinal purity in regard to the social justice movement. While that movement is secular, it seems to fulfill many of the psycho-spiritual appetites once served by religion.
~ Sky Gilbert
Over the years, a number of judges, among them the great Learned Hand, had attempted, tongues not always quite firmly in cheek, to sort out these fine and crucial distinctions. A legal definition of the term "superhero" had even been arrived at.
~ Michael Chabon
Innocence is not a legal term.
~ Michael Connelly
It is easy to follow a generic God because you can fill the term God with any presupposition you please; it is difficult to follow Jesus, because then you have to take seriously his teachings on discipleship, on what exactly following him entails.
~ Michael Hardin
Karl Schimper, was actually the first to coin the term "ice age
~ Bill Bryson
Walpole invented a term, gloomth, to convey the ambience of Gothick; Wyatt's houses were the very quintessence of gloomth.
~ Bill Bryson
Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.
~ Tabish Khair
There was a term he knew and thought of now; he had heard it used only in the context of aviation, to explain how, on an otherwise clear day, a plane could fall so quickly from the sky. OBE. Overcome by events. That was what was happening now. The world—the human race—had been overcome by events.
~ Justin Cronin
The day-to-day. That was the term they used. Thinking neither of a past that was too much a story of loss and death, nor of a future that might never happen.
~ Justin Cronin
I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.
~ Jimmi Simpson
At the end of Trump's term, what I've learned is that I really don't understand America well at all.
~ Francis Fukuyama
person competent in fiqh is a faqih – generally a term of respect, but in modern Arabic usage also a term for (in politics but also love) a person out of touch with reality, a 'dreamer'.
~ Fred Halliday
the past decade or more. The term originated in the film The Philadelphia
~ Fred Halliday
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
~ Herbert Marcuse
I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.
~ Jean-Francois Cope