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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.


Martha Beck


#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.


Adrian Lyne


#arbitrary #i #love #make #movie

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.


Marshall McLuhan


#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.


Margaret Mead


#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.


George Jean Nathan


#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.


Ichiro Suzuki


#definition #else #i #like #personally

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.


Rudy Rucker


#characters #fiction #fiction writers #happens #into

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.


William H. Seward


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #domain #hold #indeed

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.


Nate Silver


#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.


Hank Azaria


#award #award shows #be true #cliche #deserving






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