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I keep defying the odds, you know.
Life is a death-defying experience.
The key to every man is his thought.
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
I've been defying the odds my entire life.
Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.
Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.
I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.
'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.
Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.
I don't think I'm defying stereotypes on purpose. If it so appears that way, so be it. For me, I've been brought up that way.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.
My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate - and sensible - state should concern itself with.
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.
I have seen my father defying societal norms and investing his time and energy on us. He was ridiculed and criticised by the community for asking girls to seek a career in wrestling. But he had vision and was least worried when elders warned him his daughters would not find grooms. I had to wrestle for him and that motivated me tremendously.