Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Love is just a word, but you bring it definition."
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Definitions
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Ashley Graham
Model
"There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result."
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"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
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"Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it."
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"My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill."
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"The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that."
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"My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong."
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"There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."
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"...that I alone hold the definition of what I am."
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"Taste is the feminine of genius."
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"My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV."
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"My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel."
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"You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!"
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"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him."
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"Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false."
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"My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them."
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"The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing."
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"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works."
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"And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith."
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"There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood."
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"The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition."
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"As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable."
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