When you don’t inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
This game doesn’t define who I am as a person.
In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
I have learned that track doesn’t define me. My faith defines me. I’m running because I have been blessed with a gift.
A film career does not define me. There is a other side to my life.
What is marriage anyway? How do you define it? I think, for me, it’s being friends.
I want to abolish tags like ‘comeback’ and ‘retirement’ that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
It’s hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you’re trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we’re talking about.
When you celebrate somebody’s bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can’t tell the good from the bad?
The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two – indeed, how they reinforce one another.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
I don’t define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I’ve persevered.
What I love about doing live theater and the same material night after night is… you can live inside the same words. There comes a great joy in that, in making it so clear because you’ve had the time to define it.
My hair color is super important to my look because I feel like it helps kind of define who I am. It’s like a characteristic of mine that makes me feel comfortable and different from the rest.
I didn’t grow up with money and I don’t define my life by money.
Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you’re wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
My height doesn’t define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature – and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
You cannot represent cool. You’ve got to be cool. You’ve got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
I don’t think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
White liberals are the most racist people I’ve ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people to be able to get into college with lower grades and lower school scores simply because they are African American. That’s insane.
Trump doesn’t define my destiny, only I do and the Lord above.
I don’t think you can lead a nation if you don’t have a definition of the nation. We have to define, as Democrats, what a nation is and embrace the entire nation.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That’s reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
Creation’s gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.
Life presents us with lots of forks in the road – big choices that define what kind of a person we are and how successful we become.
I would never say that claiming you’re a Christian is wrong. I understand that there is a human aspect of being able to identify people whether it’s African American, Hispanic or Asian. But the definition doesn’t define the relationship, meaning you can be married and still not know intimacy.
I keep trying to define ‘poetry,’ but it’s so difficult.
I’m usually very attracted to things that I can’t define. If something’s too clear, it’s very often not inspiring to me anymore.
While UPA2’s handling of immediate foreign policy challenges can be criticised, it would be difficult to challenge the long-term relevance of the principles that define the Manmohan Singh Doctrine.
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I’m just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.
I’m finding my self worth. At 21, this is the very beginning, even though I feel so old. This is the time you figure out who you are, and don’t let anyone define you.
As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it’s straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I’m wearing much.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
For some reason, people find me funny. It’s quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It’s even harder to define why a person would be funny. It’s a word that I can’t define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
Words don’t define me. Actions, my faith, and the strength of my relationships and family do.
MS doesn’t define who I am.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Your goal as a candidate – define others before they can define you.
At the end of the day, you’re only going to be allowed to play basketball for a short period of time. You’re a human other than that for the rest of your life. So it’s safe to say that basketball doesn’t define me. It’s just a sport that I was blessed to play.
