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I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.
Austin Grossman
Time
Good
Day
Character
Memory
People
Conservative
Remember
Own
President
Our
Presidents
Right-Wing
Definition
Nixon
About
More
Write
He
Like
Also
Him
His
Clinton
Up
Curious
Just
Grew
Centrist
Really
Good Character
Who
Funnier
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
Bassem Youssef
People
World
Political
Power
Right-Wing
Definition
All-Around
Wing
Around
Always
Against
Sarcasm
Right
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
Ben Bernanke
Economics
Resources
Definition
Scarce
Allocation
Study
Textbooks
May
Certainly
Describe
Why
It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.
Ben Domenech
Best
Settle
Worst
Definition
Obvious
Insufficient
Just
Just One
Inaccurate
Reason
Enlightenment
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Ben Okri
Humanity
Too
Definition
Fallen
Very
Human
Fiction
Human Beings
Mean
Naturalism
Beings
Description
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon
Art
Reality
Approaches
Definition
Imperfect
Perfection
Mere
Untrue
Inasmuch
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
Bernard Hopkins
You
Discipline
Definition
Bernard
Would
Would-Be
Hopkins
Name
Read
Dictionary
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill Gates
Best
Relative
Definition
Purely
Only
Days
America
Behind
Which
Basis
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.
Billy Graham
God
Good
Man
Woman
Marriage
People
Strong
Will
Good People
State
Definition
Ministry
Minnesota
Support
Between
Ties
Pray
North
Personal
Former
Show
Star
Resident
I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
Positive
Work
Love
Capitalism
Business
World
Three
Building
Positive Impact
Local
Our
Way
Define
Definition
Impact
Some
Having
New
Global
New Way
Whether
Ingredients
Successful
Convinced
Should
Include
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
Bjarke Ingels
Love
Beautiful
Definition
Complexity
Minimum
Data
Computer
Very
Maximum
Information
Capacity
Transmit
Programmers
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Genocide
Beginning
Tools
Our
Definition
Point
Point Of View
Armenia
Were
Happened
Realizing
View
Europe
Jew
By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.
Brad Feld
People
Adds
Definition
Scales
Rapidly
Quickly
Company
If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.
Brad Garlinghouse
Me
Ripple
Definition
Would
Trade
Continue
Company
Away
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
Brit Marling
Will
Girl
Worse
Definition
Weeks
New
New One
Than
Being
Anything
Two
Two Weeks
Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
Bruce Robinson
Made
Definition
Someone
Get
Who
Star
Film
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty
Death
Word
Healthy
Definition
Morbid
Perfectly
Unfortunately
Which
Unhealthy
Mean
Preoccupation
Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
Carol Bartz
Finance
You
First
Back
Broad
Say
Definition
Could
Chat
Had
Almost
Yahoo
Social
Product
Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.
Carrie Lam
Poverty
Relative
Definition
Times
Move
Acknowledge
Should
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
You
Seen
Prisoner
Group
Defined
Rules
Definition
Member
Status
Part
Abuse
Reduced
Done
Means
Your
Whom
Jazz in the 1920s and '30s was dance music, teenage music for parties, for being wild and young. There's this punk feeling I really love. It was something so radical and different and new and not codified. People didn't have a definition of what they were doing.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Love
Music
People
Dance
Punk
Feeling
Young
Jazz
Radical
Teenage
Wild
Dance Music
Definition
Something
New
Parties
Doing
Were
Being
Different
Really
Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
Charles Duhigg
Opportunities
Opportunity
Mind
Become
Group
Teenagers
Definition
Out
Running
Someone
New
Because
Always
Ultimately
Elderly
Eventually
Reinvention
Belonging
The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
Charles Platt
Energy
Definition
Economy
Continuous
Depends
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
Chesley Sullenberger
Wife
Heroism
Definition
At Least One
See
Someone
Risk
Had
Put
Looked
She
Another
Because
Least
Been
Dictionary
Themselves
Much
Used
Chooses
Who
Found
Actually
Save
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
Word
Think
Sides
Way
Definition
Would
Someone
Write
Writer
Takes
Emperor
Powerless
His
Subjects
Artist
Different
Which
Against
Should
Who
Prescribing
When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.
Christina Milian
Great
People
Think
Definition
John
John Travolta
Only
He
Look
Because
His
Person
Just
Movies
Really
Cool
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