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When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.
I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.
I said that in Beverly Hills, a woman going out to a party without makeup on is shocking. I was referring to women in Beverly Hills in general.
People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.
If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.
I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.
I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.
It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around.
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.
Journalists casually use terms like crossing the border illegally when referring to asylum seekers - when in fact there is no law that says they must use the ports of entry.
In my point of view, bad girl is not a villain. Like, people in the United States use 'bad' as referring to something cool. So it means 'Cool girl.' I wish CL was like that.
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Many a time when magazines reported that Nagarjuna was spotted with a lady, I was present at that very event. They could be referring to me, as they might have not recognised me.
Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Referring to ISIL as a destructive religious cult rather than a legitimate theo-political 'radical Islamic' group is not just more accurate, it also exposes ISIL's corrupt religious narrative.
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.