Defining Quotes

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
Devon Aoki

Beauty, Power, Someone

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
Colin Powell

Moving, May, Down

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Tony Snow

America, Again, Holiday

I don't like defining myself. I just am.
Britney Spears

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France

Him, Makes, Worst

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith

Real, Control, Understand

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt

Meaning, Error, Committing

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.
Jill Scott

Time, Power, Working

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Moment, Wanted, Mark

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
Tony Campolo

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
John Podhoretz

Him, Himself, Destroy

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
Benjamin Carson

God, Wrong, Sense

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
John Archibald Wheeler

Hot, Thousand, Event

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
William Hague

Respect, Wrong, Decisions

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Great, Long

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Long, Lives

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu

Marriage, Power, Legal

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry

After, Knowing, Step

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns

Good, History, Past

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.
Van Morrison

Love, Music, Today

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
Donna Brazile

Vision, Campaign, Opponent

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
Kenny Loggins

Power, Heart, Open

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Jay Weatherill

Crisis, Two, Both

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida

Love, Change, Freedom

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.
Wim Wenders

True, Bored, Else

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Work, Best, Food

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
Debra Messing

Life, Mother, Single

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
Michael Mandelbaum

Future, Past, Political

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
Eva Mendes

Love, Sexy, Put

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.
Stephen Hunter

Time, Give, Try

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