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“Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.”

Able Quality Standards Police Defined

Author:John Kao

“The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.”

Men May Party Guilt Defined One Man Injured

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“The only way people can repay the debt is by cutting their living standards very drastically. It means agreeing to shift their pension plans from defined benefit plans - when you know what you're going to get - into just "defined contribution plans," where you put money in, like into a roach motel, and you don't know what's coming out.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“I am proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this and I pride myself on not being a judgemental person.”

Persons Character Race Pride Proud Mets Circles Defined Former Teammate Judgemental Circle Of Friends

Author:Steve Clevenger

“His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let it bring them down or use it as an excuse.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.”

Thinking Ends Husband Defined

Author:Natalie Portman

“Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.”

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Author:Ted Leo

“The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.”

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Author:Walt Dohrn

“At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples' opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.”

“My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.”

Humanitarian Who I Am Defined This Day Refugee Albania

Author:Masiela Lusha

“You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.”

Environment Defined Our Environment

Author:T.I.

“Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.”

Men Should Defined One Man One Woman

Author:Karl Rove

“[Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?”

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Author:Steve Inskeep

“Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept idea. No matter how creative you are - and thus how much creative space you need - there's always some fundamental values and drivers your brand should seek to address - in order to become successful.”

“My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."”

Looks Kind Mother Like You Late Female Who You Are Defined Sixty Seventies Emancipation

Author:Felicity Jones

“The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money you pay the government, how much money the government gets from you, because only the government does good stuff, only the government does good works, only the government cares about people. It's bogus.”

People Want Giving Believe Doe Government Care Left Stuff Pay Morality Defined Good Work

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.”

World Years Moral Including Defined Civilized Holocaust Compass Moral Compass

Author:Hershel Shanks

“Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.”

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Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.”

Past Law Universe Can Do Ability Break Capacity Miracle Jew Instance Defined Catholicism Assimilation

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.”

Ifs Needs Character White Race Reader Assuming Defined

Author:Roxane Gay

“I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.”

World Humanity Common Conflict Defined Apologizing Future Of Humanity

Author:Barack Obama

“If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.”

Thinking Firsts Stills War Body Form Justice Pleasure Effort Destruction Soldier Revenge Defined Destructive Art Of War Taliban Unleashed

Author:Judith Butler

“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.”

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Author:Maxine Waters

“For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.”

Knows Years Wells Situation Eternal Atheist Defined Realms Agnostic Lovecraft

Author:Paul Laffoley

“Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.”

Needs Wells Causes Roots Organization Independent Terrorism Campaigns Terrorist Defined Precise Bin Laden Surveys Osama Bin Laden Spun Root Cause

Author:Edward Said

“As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.”

Thinking Needs Should Done Community Havens Diversity Should Have Defined Loud Queens Destructive Drag Stereotype Asian Irresponsible Asian American Flamboyant Drag Queen Glbt

Author:George Takei

“We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?”

People Ifs Self Helping Culture Left Essentials Driven Defined What If Materialistic God Help God Help Us

Author:Christine Baranski

“Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.”

Kind Matter Seems Political Hate Left Social Black Justice Heard Feminism Speech Social Justice Doctrine Ideology Defined Black Lives Matter Hate Speech Black Lives

Author:Milo Yiannopoulos

“Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.”

People Share Gay Defined Denied Gay People

Author:Evan Wolfson

“For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the Lord Himself. It's the one institution that is ceremoniously performed by priesthood authority in the temple [and] transcends this world. It is of such profound importance... such a core doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the very purpose of the creation of this earth. One hardly can get past the first page of Genesis without seeing that very clearly.”

“Either there is marriage as it is now defined and as defined by the Lord, or there is what could thus be described as genderless marriage. The latter is abhorrent to God, who, as we've been discussing, Himself described what marriage is - between a man and a woman.”

Men Lord Defined Latter Discussing Abhorrent

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.”

“We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate or not. Nobody's opposed to that. But immigration has been defined now as people flooding the country who are noncitizens. And that's called "immigration," according to the culture of the left.”

People Has Beens Country Culture Left Determine Favors Immigration Defined Quantity Flooding

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“For somebody who's never run for office before, Donald Trump understands that old axiom, "Define yourself before you're defined."”

Running Trump Office Defined Axioms Define Yourself

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.”

“I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country, the economy of our country; issues that have traditionally been considered women's issues like health and education and the environment are now being defined in terms of our national strength. So I think women have made a big difference in putting things in perspective.”

“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.”

“In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.”

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Author:Tom Gjelten

“Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.”

Men Wells Has Beens Reason Whole Able Literature Rooms Existence Accepting Painting Creating Painter Ideology Defined Variety Denied Dominant Virginia Woolf

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?”

Men Want Shows Wanted Artist Christ Poet Musician Female Males Sake Gender Singers Defined Call Me Curator Woman Artist

Author:Patti Smith

“What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.”

Stories Moving Interest Fiction Storytelling Defined Plot Constraints

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.”

Thinking Men Years Mind Kids Today Form Changed Eternal Twenties Conservative Tyranny Defined Libertarianism Conservatism Hostility Fourteen Idealistic Credo

Author:Steve Erickson

“With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.”

People Way Beautiful Fall Spirituality Groups Movement Keys Findings Falling In Love Disappear Favors Defined Something New Acceptable Splits Tribes Transience

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.”

Stars Defined Defining Define Yourself

Author:George Elliott Clarke

“Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, even though studies have consistently shown - for decades - the people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites.”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.”

People Ifs War Ends Community Powerful Race Drug Vulnerable Defined Our Society Target Sparks Outrage Literal War On Drugs

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.”

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Author:Julie Benz

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