If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
Ryan Gosling

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
Bo Bennett

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
Donna Brazile

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
Steve Buyer

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Thomas Szasz

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
Trevor Nunn

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
Spike Lee

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
Stokely Carmichael

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Arthur Keith

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
Bo Bennett

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
Ferdinand de Saussure

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
Joichi Ito

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.
Rose E. Bird

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
Gao Xingjian

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
Marvin Olasky