Redefining Quotes

• One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Positive, Athlete

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• The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

  Jim Bunning

  Views, Voice, Numbers

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• Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

  Keith O'Brien

  Sex, Block, School

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• MTV has always been about redefining itself.

  Martha Quinn

  Mtv

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• You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

  Tim Cook

  Wall, Focus, Problem

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• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

  Harold Wilson

  Eugenics, Revolution, Socialism

  Speech at Labour Party conference on October 01, 1963. "Labour Party Annual Conference Report, 1963", pp. 139-140, 1963.

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• The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

  Patty Murray

  Fda, Abortion, Drug

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• Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

  Lance Loud

  Honesty, Mean, Order

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• It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

  Katherine Reutter

  Strength, Inspirational Sports, Character

  "Olympic Q & A: Katherine Reutter, USA Speedskating". Interview with Jason Wachob, www.mindbodygreen.com. February 17, 2010.

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• President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

  Bill Shuster

  Marriage, Senior, Cutting

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, People, Modern

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• The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

  Rita Dove

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Home, Cutting

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• Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

  Audre Lorde

  Women, Responsibility, Gay

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.

  Tony Porter

  Men, Challenges, Doubt

  "A call to men". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely. Is there value in the black church? Absolutely. Is there value in having immigrant churches? Absolutely. But if we don't have congregations gathering with people of different races, what we're doing is we are redefining racial division, a racial inequality.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.

  Mel White

  Christian, Church, Labels

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• With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake. The authors make a compelling secular case for marriage as a partnership between a man and a woman, whose special status is based on society's interest in the nurture and education of children.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Country, Children, Men

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• It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Dark, Perspective, Negative

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  Sam Brownback

  Men, Thinking, Needs

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• We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Practice, White

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• ...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

  David Byrne

  Art, Ideas, Useless

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• Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Hipster, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

  Rick Warren

  Brother, Years, What If

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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