Defines Quotes

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

What you invest your time in defines who you are.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.