Defined Quotes - Page 24

• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Jim Crow Laws, Groups

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press

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• Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

  Scott Cunningham

  Practice, Magic, Use

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

  Dean Spade

  Real, Commitment, Love Is

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• I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.

  Peter Viereck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "The First Conservative" by Tom Reiss, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Soldier, Shantaram, Endure

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.

  Vito Russo

  Taken, Character, Gay

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• Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspiration, Moments

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• I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Character, Heart

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• England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

  Kevin Ayers

  Unique, Thinking, Class

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• I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

  Simon Van Booy

  Memories, Disappointment, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

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• In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  May, Holy, Pantheism

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• Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

  Peter Cundill

  Trying, Strategy, Wells

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

  Jim Horning

  Real, World, Tribes

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• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  Kat Cole

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Kaizen, Loyal

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• I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

  Serena Williams

  Fall, Winning, Thinking

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• Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others

  Kevin Cashman

  Energy, Add, Values

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• We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Thinking, Expectations

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

  Mike Nichols

  Essence, Play, Differences

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• I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Excellence, Stories, Love Story

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• I never wish to be easily defined.

  Franz Kafka

  Wish

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• Beauty is not defined by the size of your jeans.

  Liv Tyler

  Jeans, Size

  Interview with Degen Pener, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Regret, Character, Defining

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  Ira Sachs

  Reality, Shifting, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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