#def

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#action #children #commitments #decisively #deferring

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#defence #last #new #relation #significant

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. ↗

— Clare Short

#advice #again #attorney #because #brought

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. ↗

— Martin Short

#audience #defy #expectations #fun #hate

I definitely have favourites in terms of albums. ↗

— Josh Silver

#definitely #favourites #i #terms

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i #material #never #other #people

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #define #jazz #music

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#defines #girl #how #i #i am