Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.
Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.
A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.
Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
