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To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
As we continue to apply AI to new fields, ethical dilemmas will arise and the answers will not be clearly defined.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.
It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
I can't disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women - and 'strong' defined by being themselves.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.
I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
My teammates and my coaches have all allowed me to step into my individuality and not be defined by just being a gymnast.
If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.
You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.
To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
I've thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn't be where I am today without my dyslexia.
I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.
It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.