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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
I am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word 'refugee' does not define me. It just limits me and puts me in a box.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
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.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.
Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch.
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.
In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.
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 like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.
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.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
I didn't have a problem with myself or my skin. I had a problem with the way people treated me because of my skin. They tried to define me.
Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.
L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.
I have two boys with Nigerian heritage and that's the most important thing but race shouldn't define you. You just have to have a thick skin.
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
Whether they 'lean into' career, family, or both, let's not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.
Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.
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.
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.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
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.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
Everyone has a 'Majnu' in them. It's not about the sad or happy climax. It's a term we use to define someone who falls in love and faces problems.
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.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Honestly, at the end of the day, what I want women to know is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. And that it should not define who you are.
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