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• My number-one goal is to never feel like I’m strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I’m doing that as anything – as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter – I feel like the minute I name it, I’m stuck in a box.

  Amanda Palmer

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• 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

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• 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

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• ‘Step Brothers’ itself, when I did it, I don’t know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I’m really happy that that’s the one that ended up being that for me.

  Adam Paul Scott

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• I don’t think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

  Suzanne Vega

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• 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 Luther Powell

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

  John Podhoretz

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  Adam Johnson

  Topics in America

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• 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

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• 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

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• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

  Peter Agre

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

  Tony Snow

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