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"Beach." It's a very loose term now. Pretty widely used term. And that's awesome, but I guess my California experience is different from a lot of people's interpretations, and I think maybe I just wanted to put my spin on it.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are very accurate, in a sense. In terms of people's needs to concentrate on race, I wonder if it's completely necessary, but it's not something that is so dynamically relevant to me that I feel it should be one thing or another.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Coming to terms with my feelings of worthlessness isn't always a bad time, but it's rarely a good one.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

Come to terms with death. Thereafter anything is possible.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

[Donald] Trump is a fascist and that`s not a term I use loosely or often but he has earned it.

During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Early in my term I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not now doing.

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

Even in relativity theory even though you can analyze space - time in terms of this four-dimensional geometrical structure one of the dimensions is different. And this shows up in the equations. It has a different sign - rather than plus it shows up as a negative minus. So even in relativity theory time is distinct from space in terms of the way in which these dimensions manifest themselves in the equations.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand.

Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there