Zitat des Tages über Trotzen / Defying:
I keep defying the odds, you know.
Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.