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And then the next day, the guy is a criminal.Defiant optimism I really feel is having the courage to take on a system and make it work for everyone.
Not that young-- Very young.Ragingly defiant beauty, I feel like the defiance often led to creating new art forms in response to oppression.
Technology, coupled with left-brained human intelligence, practical, pragmatic, nonetheless driven, results-oriented will see us through. Though the 'I' part of the equation standsin defiant contravention of this assumption. There's more, but I expect you to get the drift. I suggest that the view of reality representedby these beliefs is deeply flawed and it also underlies the flawed system of economics that
You can ask my mom.I am defiant, always have been.And you might think of that word in a negative way, right?
ALEXANDRA GARCÍA: Yeah. It's like, why do you fear me?I call it a defiant bolero, because it's a song directly to patriarchy, with all the intention of destroying it.So I really was looking into stories, and some of them are related to something that happened in Puerto Rico
She has that defiance.And she stands defiant until the end.Even her last line in the movie, "I've always wanted to travel," she is defiant.
So I really learned that I think that's exactly the way we should all be in this fight.We should stand defiant.And we should be angry.
Children are very sassy.They can be very defiant.They have little personalities, but they're trying to figure themselves out.
But what's become very big is comics.His eyes were defiant, angry.
This is Nemo on the deck of the Nautilus, arms crossed.He's also defiant, looking at that British frigate that he's going to sink very soon.And this is terrorism but it's thrilling.
But however, it wasn't quite as frenzied at the airport as in the movie.And we're defiant, and we can live with the sanctions.
son from baby booking. And so I'm sitting in the back of this car, hands behind my back, and I am just absolutely freaking out. And my friend was sitting there with this verysmug and defiant look on his face that quite honestly just kept bothering me every time I looked at him. And so I'm looking at him like, "What arewe supposed to do?" And his answer to me was, "Just tell them it wasn't you." And I was a kid I who could make up an excuse for everything, and even I looked at him and I was like, "That
culture of holding them in low regard affects everyone including Christians and others but Iranians in general aremuch more defiant than Arabs on such social matters I had learned that no self-respecting Iranian Ayatollahreaches that exalted rank without producing a tone roughly the size of the Manhattan telephone directory describing
other uh emotions here like there are kind of Marshallones kind of defiant ones and they're kind of whimsical ones uh kindof little giddy ones and then uh they're aggressive
It's like, you always had that spirit of, I got this.I've been stubborn and defiant.And yeah, just recently, I connected with a cousin.
Because their accents, it identifies them in a way.It's a kind of defiant pride in how local their culture is, you know?Verbally anyway, and the linguistics that's in Irving Welsh's books are like that.
doing whatever that defies the rest of civilization.Robert Louis Stevenson-- This is the defiant Stevenson.
And I wasn't even asking you to do anything.You just kept looking at me defiantly, like if you do ask me to do something, the answer is no.And I kind of realized that that kind of clicked something in the patterns in my life, where I definitely am not
Not that young-- Very young.Yes, a ragingly defiant beauty.
What if that is how we find our purpose and our meaning?What if the hills are where we find our defiant human spirit?How different would it be if I told you that you had that and you had everything you need to overcome any challenge in life?
And the qualities that lead to the successful warrior are pretty defiantly not the qualities that lead to the successful pioneer.
And we were watching that documentary, "The Defiant Ones." With Jimmy Drake.
I was 14. I was a very defiant teenager, a very defiant kid.
Drove people insane. And he was defiant about it.
A myth will not necessarily come to a conclusion that is hopeful or that's defiant.
But Iqueta still stood there, like a defiant sentry at the edge of the carved rings.
I read "Well of Loneliness." So I was kind of much more defiant than I probably should have been.
It's not the only reason a child might be chronically oppositional or defiant.
It only took a minute, smiling defiantly as he chewed and thought of other things of Ivan's he'd like.
Old Testament prophet. He had a defiantly thick Bronx accent, an intimidating intellect, and the ultimate
The more pressure I get, the more resilient and defiant I become.
And it's very interesting that you talk about your-- and you talk about your mom quite a lot in the book.But especially in your early years, was she the original defiant optimist?Do you look at her as the person that started it all for you, or-- Absolutely.
And I think that was so sad and that was so limiting for someone who was so intelligent.And I think for me, it was really looking at my mother as original defiant optimist.That's why she really pushed us and made sure that we actually were independent.
And I go, yeah.And that, my friends, is your defiant human spirit.
He's just cantankerous, belligerent, defiant, almost, in his pushing of the fans.
And she stands defiant until the end.Even her last line in the movie, "I've always wanted to travel," she is defiant.And she's sort of like cracking a very darkly humorous joke at the end.
Oil shipments are down 50%.but yet at the same time, the Iranians are remaining defiant.There was some hope that during the last three meetings in Kazakhstan-- that is, last month-- the Iranians may soften their position somewhat.
what you're doing she said softly during the final call Ron galfinger head of the United Auto Workers who had been defiant the
my favorite moment of the the ongoing Iraq War was when that general was like kind of strutting up and getting defiant
I remember that it was yellow but no more than a weed, the kind that grows defiantly on any wasteland.
That's why she really pushed us and made sure that we actually were independent.She also in her own way carved out a life for herself, where she was I would call a quiet entrepreneur, and then also the defiant optimistthat my grandmother was.
So what we were seeing was a lot of young boys, African-American boys, girls, black and brown, who had diagnoses of oppositional defiant disorder,
Not that young-- Very young.Yes. Thank you. I think you wrote that people lived lives filled-- With a ragingly defiant beauty.
Would you like to know?OK, well I'm going to share with you today three magic words that will help you unleash your defiance, and the defiant human spirit, which Victor Frankl saysenables us to tap into our spiritual force to overcome suffering.
So I think we should look at revolutionaries or radicals not just as those who are the Rosa Parks, who with one defiant act
Whether it's a bully or just a man in general, I wouldn't say I'm defiant against it.
The way that her hair, ghastly white, held its bun, save for a few to defiant wisps.
If I get a call, or I'm working with a family where the child is chronically resistant or defiant.
She has the anger.She has that defiance.And she stands defiant until the end.
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