Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
Being the mayor of your hometown is the best job in America, partly because it's relatively nonpartisan - we focus on results, not ideology.
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.
For me, one of the things that makes the X-Men so crucial is they are relatively small in number but they have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the society around them.
We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.
Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.
I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.
I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.
President-elect Trump is inheriting a relatively strong economy, and markets are pricing in faster growth under his watch.
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.
One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.
My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.
When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.
Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.
I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
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