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Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.
In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.
One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.
I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
In terms of picking album titles or picking track titles, I think very carefully on all of that because that is the entrance point.
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.
For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.
I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.
I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
Out of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I would rather Clinton be president, but just overall, I would rather Obama have a third term.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
I don't love the term gatekeeper because it feels like there's a negative connotation attached to it, so I prefer to go with litmus test.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.
As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.
If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.
We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.