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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body. -- Devon Aoki
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself. -- Eckhart Tolle
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. -- Hannah Arendt
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. -- Tony Snow
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. -- Carol Moseley Braun
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. -- Jill Scott
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. -- Robert Benchley
Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. -- Paul Begala
Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it." -- Paul Begala
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. -- Noah Baumbach
Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power. -- Mary Frances Berry
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. -- John Sununu
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak. -- Katherine Dunn
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible. -- Kurt Eichenwald
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story. -- Michaela Angela Davis
I don't like defining myself. I just am. -- Britney Spears
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. -- Max Eastman
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship. -- Brennan Manning
A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision. -- Donna Brazile
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. -- Kevin Costner
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it. -- Halle Berry
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life. -- Tyson Gay
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom. -- Jay Weatherill
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. -- Albert Einstein
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that. -- David Suzuki
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. -- Roger Ebert
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. -- Jeb Bush
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. -- Jacques Ellul
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. -- Michael Mandelbaum
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre. -- Taiye Selasi
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. -- Sergio Bambaren
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences. -- Adam Savage
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. -- Michael Nesmith
I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. -- Arsenio Hall
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist. -- James Joyce
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt. -- Walker Evans
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind. -- Jim Lee
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment. -- Dwayne Johnson
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty. -- Joshua Harris
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world. -- John Burnside
You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot. -- Srikumar Rao
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. -- Stephen King
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself. -- Haruki Murakami
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. -- Harvey Fierstein
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people. -- Ben Carson
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people. -- Ben Carson
All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey
I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do. -- Josh Homme
If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow. -- Robin S. Sharma
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character. -- Dan Coats
All I want is the defining moment. -- Brian Bosworth
Beating John Landy was my defining race. -- Roger Bannister
Music is a defining element of character. -- Plato
Futility is the defining characteristic of life. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining. -- Bryant H. McGill
The lacy fight was a career defining fight. -- Joe Calzaghe
I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me. -- Suzanne Vega
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. -- Suzanne Vega
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism. -- George Will
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining. -- Ravi Zacharias
People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children. -- Markus Zusak
The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it's resourcefulness. -- Tony Robbins
A defining factor of team success is trust in God. -- Sunday Adelaja
Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him. -- John Podhoretz
Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be. -- Amy Hill Hearth
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. -- John Archibald Wheeler
There has been one defining production for me in each decade. -- Stephen Daldry
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you. -- Sinbad
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation. -- David Weinberger
The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia. -- Andrew C. McCarthy
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. -- Jean Driscoll
I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position. -- Edgar Schein
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? -- Jacques Hadamard
Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny. -- Oprah Winfrey
You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life! -- Mark Batterson
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. -- Louis Untermeyer
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative. -- Serge Lang
I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own. -- Kevin Costner
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God. -- Ellen Hopkins
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. -- Robert Silverberg
Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity. -- David Cottrell
Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success. -- Debasish Mridha
A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do. -- Mick Jones
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. -- Robert J. Shiller
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. -- Malcolm Bradbury
One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals. -- Gina Greenlee
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. -- Claire Cook
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. -- Stephen King
It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. -- John Hodgman
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. -- Barbra Streisand
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds. -- Jonathan Ive
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities. -- John Kao
Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead -- John Paul Warren
The most exciting and most defining part of our spirituality comes from the journey we take. -- Jenna Alatari
You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal. -- Greg Jackson
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. -- Eleanor Catton
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance. -- Unarine Ramaru
We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away. -- Tim Hiller
The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time. -- Salil Shetty
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. -- Robert M. Hensel
I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic. -- Lisa Rinna
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience. -- Lance Armstrong
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet. -- Neil Young
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry. -- Mitchell Kapor
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. -- Debra Messing
We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. -- Johnny Hunt
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. -- Eckhart Tolle
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. -- Diane Wakoski
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. -- Jim Yong Kim
But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did. -- Tom DeLonge
Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment. -- Rachel Hoffman
I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it. -- Margaret Atwood

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