Defined Quotes - Page 30

• War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

  Ru Freeman

  War, Childhood, Youth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the moment, when you're in a thriving scene of musicians, inevitably everyone is going to be doing something completely different from everyone else

  Missy Mazzoli

  Believe, Thinking, Practice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and Russia, both of which defined themselves as messianic nations. In both countries too, secular elites delved deeply into apocalyptic and prophetic ideas, giving their nations a millenarian bent.

  Philip Jenkins

  Country, Ambition, Player

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

  Chris Matthews

  Kings, Blue, Guitar

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Religious, War

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.

  Asra Nomani

  Country, Smart, Believe

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Art, People, Everyday

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberty, Target, World

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.

  Donald Sutherland

  Real, Character, Night

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

  Errol Morris

  Hurt, Revenge, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Holy Grail, Tiny

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Dad, Self

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There isn't a clear goal in sight. 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.

  Edward Said

  Independent, Clear Goals, Sight

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

  Chris Hayes

  Way, Conservative, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who simply couldn't accept the fact that I was doing something that they perceived as being a radical departure from Avenue Q.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

  Justin Trudeau

  Wish, Opponents

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

  Anna Meredith

  Nice, Reactions, Venues

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.

  Jacob Bannon

  Rocks, Long, Community

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

  Jacob Bannon

  Everyday, Culture, Youth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Two, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

  Louis Garrel

  Fashion, Character, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.

  Michael Emerson

  Space, Trying, Fit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

  Jessa Crispin

  Men, Feminism, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

  Jeff Sharlet

  War, Enemy, Cold

  Source: bigthink.com

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