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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
From my perspective, the world's shaped me more than anything else. It's a feedback loop.
I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.
Derby day in Buenos Aires is completely crazy and those sort of experiences have shaped me.
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.
I've always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she's shaped.
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.
Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.
Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.
I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.
I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.
Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'
I was able to be influential and create a mold. There was no one else who was shaped like me or looked like me.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.