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Being tall isn't what makes you a good footballer, and I don't think that's the defining factor in English football at all.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
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.
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.
Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
Imagining what the possibilities are versus what is right in front of me has been the second biggest factor in defining my career.
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.
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.
Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
I don't think there was one. I can't name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.
I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.
There wasn't a defining moment or match or even a person that made me want to wrestle. It all just sort of happened. Kind of like puberty.
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.
Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
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.
Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
The Nazis hijacked the Jewish thing early on by defining it as 'the Jewish problem' and started looking for a solution. These are not just words.
The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.
Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.
Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.
As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.
I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.
What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.