Wentworth Miller Quotes

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

Wentworth Miller

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• Boxes
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• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Think
  • Boxes
  • Cultural

• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Beloved
  • You Are
  • Be Hated

• You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Causes
  • Lines

• Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Believe
  • Bottom
  • Stuck

• I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Play

• Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • History
  • Persons
  • Definitions

• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Fields
  • Definitions
  • Experts

• All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Kids
  • Made
  • Boxes

• All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Definitions

• I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Decision

• Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Giving

• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Journey
  • Horrible
  • Boredom

• Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Chance

• I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Style
  • Confidence

• This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Break
  • Addiction

• In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Beautiful
  • Creation
  • Embrace

• I'm proud of you, ... I really appreciate you volunteering your time. Be very careful down there. You're the best in the state.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Proud
  • Appreciate
  • State

• The future of advertising is the Internet.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Future
  • Internet
  • Advertising

• The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Vision

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Boxes
  • Definitions