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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. — Dean Acheson
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse… — Simone de Beauvoir
Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. — Michael Bloomberg
In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to… — James Blunt
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows… — Edward de Bono
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. — Ray Bradbury
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'' — Alison Brie
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I… — Gisele Bundchen
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different… — Chris Burke
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot… — Christopher Alexander
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. — Dante Alighieri
I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them. — Dick Cheney
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue,… — Nick Clegg
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But… — Ed Koch
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day… — George Fordyce
People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable. — Damon Hill

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