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My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
— Jason Kidd
You're doing great,' she said. 'You're in Birmingham .' Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn't speak.
— Andrew O'Hagan
In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,
— Masahiro Sakurai
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
— Cy Coleman
The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.
— Naomie Harris
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
— John Patrick Shanley
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
— Georg Baselitz
My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.
— Bo Burnham
I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.
— Joan Collins
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
— Bob Cousy
I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
— Danielle Fishel
I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.
— Tyler Florence
He was going to die. He deserved a chance to do it on his terms. No matter what it cost us.
— Erin Bow
In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
— David Duchovny
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
— Piero Ferrucci
He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.
— David Blatt
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
— Orson Welles
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
— Stokely Carmichael
I see my life in terms of music.
— Albert Einstein
[The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!
— Edith Wharton
I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
— Albert Einstein
I want to die on my own terms.
— Brittany Maynard
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.
— Robert Downey Jr.
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
— Dario Argento
It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.
— Christopher Buckley
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
— James Merrill
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
— Iwan Rheon
I want to live life on my own terms.
— Simone Elkeles
I would rather live a life with a hundred failed dreams created on my own terms, than one successful reality, created on the terms of another.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr.
Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.
— Peter Forsberg
I have played cricket on my own terms.
— Kapil Dev
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
— Paul Schrader
I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
— Christina Aguilera
I was still a nerd in some ways, but I'd be that nerd on my own terms. Not to please anyone else. Not to be anyone else.
— Bijou Hunter
In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.
— Ted Alexandro
I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
— Dan Pearce
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
— Nate Berkus
I had withdrawn from the townspeople in as many ways as possible, thinking my isolation would be less painful if it came on my own terms.
— Erika Robuck
No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness
happiness on my own terms. — Anna Bayes
happiness on my own terms. — Anna Bayes
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
— Lauren Oliver
I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup ... I see it getting much prettier.
— Shawn Fanning
It takes time, but you come to terms with the fact that you were blessed, having once had it at all.
— Kristen Ashley
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest.
— Silvia Hartmann
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
— Groucho Marx
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
— Zig Ziglar
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
— Hannah More
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
— Randall Park
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
— Alex Lifeson
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
— Francesca Woodman
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
— Philip Yancey
My dad and Patricia viewed my decision to become a vegetarian largely in terms of the way it seemed to complicate their dinner menus.
— Chris Bohjalian
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
— Bill Gates
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
— Megan McKenna
In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.
— April Pearson
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.
— David Foster Wallace
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
— Michael Fassbender
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.
— Andre Siegfried
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
— Nicolas Malebranche
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
— Wendell Berry
The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.
— Jude Morgan
Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit.
— Karl Pilkington
Time doesn't always heal all wounds.
— A.J. Darkholme