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I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in… — Tony Hawk
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form… — Mike Figgis
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,… — H. L. Mencken
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing… — Miguel de Cervantes
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities… — William T. Wiley
Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment… — Joel Greenblatt
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change. — Sam Simon
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal… — Toni Morrison
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the… — Margaret Mead
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as… — Margaret Mead
It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money… — James Fallows
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways… — James Fallows
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th… — Sydney Pollack
There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into… — Mark Van Doren
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look… — Richard Cobden
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. — Aldous Huxley
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after… — Abraham Lincoln

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