A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson
Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
Meg Ryan
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
John Boorman
And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
King Abdullah II
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Edward James Olmos
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."
Tom Cruise
As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
Dick Thornburgh
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Phillips Brooks
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
John Thorn
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Ivan Turgenev
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Albert J. Nock
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
Colleen Atwood
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
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