I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I’m not praying to something that I can define; I’m just speaking because I know it does have an effect.
The space where writing happens is a unique space that’s hard to define, and when you’re kicked out of it because you’re travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.
I’m not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.
I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label – like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever – but in those moments, there’s true joy in each other.
There are a number of ways to define most valuable player. For me, it’s the guy who means the most to his team.
Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‘That’s the next Snoop.’ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.
I’ve photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image… What I’ve realized in my own journey in fashion is that I’m not that defined.
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
It’s hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.
No one always or never does anything. People don’t see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn’t attempt to define them as such.
I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn’t anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor – Brexit.
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
Whether they ‘lean into’ career, family, or both, let’s not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
I’ve always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
It’s not easy to define poetry.
Whether you’re successful or not, you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.
The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.
If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.
At every club I have been at I have had a test in the first few weeks from the big players at the club. At that moment you define your success at that club, you either win the group or you lose the group.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.
Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it’s part of their identity. For me personally, I’ve never really had a label for myself.
Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
I don’t want to define myself with one flavour. I love variety, like the 31 flavours from Baskin Robbins.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don’t live there any more.
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we’re asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?
I don’t like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It’s language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
The need to change our country’s fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.
How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.
I can’t define it, but being in a relationship certainly helps individuals become better versions of themselves.
There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it’s sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.
I think it’s fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.
With new artists, you really don’t have anything to reference. You’re helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.
I think growing up, I didn’t ever attempt to define my Koreanness. It was just this intrinsic part of me.
My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.
Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008 crash is going to define us for a generation.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it’s been a quest since then to define who we are.
How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it’s ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren’t lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America’s future.
I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we’ve got to define what amnesty is in this country.
