Term Quotes
4400 quotes by 3028 authors
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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life,…
— Marjane Satrapi
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I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics...…
— Marjane Satrapi
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of…
— Nicole Scherzinger
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I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of…
— Howard Schultz
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Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just…
— Howard Schultz
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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where…
— Martin Scorsese
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Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many…
— John Sculley
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I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest…
— Will Self
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can…
— Will Self
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
— Will Self
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If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,…
— Will Self
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And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame…
— John Sexton
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
— William Shakespeare
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms…
— Charlie Sheen
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I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply…
— Charlie Sheen
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Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
— Rob Sheffield
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Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like…
— Rob Sheffield
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