Money doesn’t always define basketball.
It’s tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, ‘Oh, look, another quirky girl.’
Never allow a stigma or the popular thing to define you.
God’s given me so much talent, and my height doesn’t define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I’m 5’11”, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.
You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.
The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.
You couldn’t define the ’80s when the ’80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn’t. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don’t matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
Don’t let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
No individual should rely on any other human being or system to define their worth as a human being. You have to begin to find that within yourself.
I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn’t let me sleep well.
Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.
I’m not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don’t define me as a person.
There’s no way in hell I’m supposed to be on television or be a broadcaster of any regard. But I have defied those odds because I believe in this: I am damn sure not going to let somebody else define who I am.
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
Stats are something which can’t define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.
I think the things that can define me is that I’m going to be honest, I’m going to be transparent, I’m going to be as open as I can.
The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs’s genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
The precariat is today’s mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it.
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Democrats need to define themselves – not what they’re against or who they’re against, but we have got to define ourselves with what we’re for.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It’s not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.
Often in life, you get thrown curveballs and how you handle them and how you bounce back from them will define who you are.
We are Madrid, and we want to define our own philosophy. We don’t want to be compared to anyone.
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
I have a very strict delineation between who I am and what it is. I very much do this for a living and it’s not my life. I think a lot of people in my industry define themselves by their work and it breaks my heart.
If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it’s something a little different than people usually think.
The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn’t define a player’s career.
There’s so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it – it’s a real peaceful thing to me.
I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.
You just don’t get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you’d have to first define what you mean by ‘God.’
We don’t really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn’t define who they are.
I get kids who say, ‘Oh, I love your movie, but my mum loves your dad.’ It’s really nice to be able to share that with him, but it doesn’t define who I am career-wise.
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’
When I think of tag teams that have made me want to the very best, of course, I think of my family, but I also think about teams like Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz, and The Dudley Boyz, who all helped define tag teams during the Attitude Era.
I can’t define myself. And I’m really happy about this, that I’m not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.
We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn’t be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define – or redefine – ourselves.
I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
I’m kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.
I define myself by my work, so I’d be a sad creature without working. I just wouldn’t get up in the morning.
I don’t know enough about manliness to define it.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade tot he void.
You can’t define yourself either in shades of what you are contesting or entirely in antithesis to it. By doing so, what you reveal is that you have nothing to say for yourself. Or that you are unsure of your messaging.
I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.
