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- Nov 07, 2020
Defied Quotes
On refusing to stay inside the lines.
Defiance takes several forms in this set — women across cultures who broke with expectation to live on their own terms, and a genre of music that resisted every attempt to define it statistically. One reflection also honors prominent public figures who overcame long odds during a period of real racial progress. See Amazing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and - in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
- Complimentary
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020