#def

She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, should could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#defiant #fearles #miami #world-war-ii

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#defense #done #effort #extra #get

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ago #american #center #challenge #colleague

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #defend #even #go #gone

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cbs #courts #day #defense #effect

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#destiny #hundreds #land #occupied #outcome

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. ↗

— Scott Adams

#before #businesses #capital #cartooning #cartoonist

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#better #brand #brand new #create #definitely

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#actions #am #defines #had #i

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#changed #confrontational #defensive #everything #interview