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All I want is the defining moment. -- Brian Bosworth
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. -- Kevin Costner
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet. -- Neil Young
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. -- John Bevere
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with. -- Charley Pride
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life. -- Sheryl Crow
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
Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people. -- Hugh Jackman
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. -- Larry Osborne
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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
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 truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it. -- Lynn G. Robbins
I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move. -- Luke Bryan
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
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience. -- Dan Jenkins
It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same. -- Jon Hein
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction -- Tash Aw
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
Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith. -- Elie Wiesel
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. -- Richard Pound
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. -- Richard Pound
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. -- James Arthur Ray
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. -- Jeffrey Archer
But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in. -- Darren Shan

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