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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
Mary Douglas

Equality, Strong, Down

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
John Hodgman

Success, Job, Show

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Success, Enjoy, Made

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
Robert Musil

Beauty, Art, Beautiful

I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
Busy Philipps

Girl, Important, Self

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.
Dwayne Johnson

Work, Fun, Different

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Bill Condon

Thought, Themselves, Anybody

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
Patrick Wilson

Music, Older, Brothers

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
Michael N. Castle

Remember, College, Road

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Alone, Democracy, Cannot

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.
Meg Whitman

Changes, Guess, Ebay

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
Charles Bent

Prayer, Might, Loving

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
Gary Locke

Education, Attitude, Long

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Alastair Campbell

Politics, May, Culture

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.
Tommy Shaw

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.
Stephenie Meyer

Life, Living, Loved

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander

Real, Sense, Word

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright

Religion, May, Belief

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Become, Goals, Clearly

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
Dylan McDermott

Life, Same, Acting

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
Walter Lang

Science, Today, Ways

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Mediocrity, Either, Virtue

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
Patrick J. Kennedy

History, Government, America

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
Warwick Davis

Character, Book, Him

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Constantin Stanislavski

Important, Words, Word

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
Graham Swift

Life, Fear, Human

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
George Steinbrenner

Best, Judge, Baseball

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
Maggie Stiefvater

Black, Dark, Young

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Thomas Haden Church

Life, Marriage, Failure

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
John Hughes

Change, Important, Guess

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