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We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

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• The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Team
  • Support
  • Vision

• 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

• It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• 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

• I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Controlled

• This is the first time a border is opened and not controlled by the Israelis. As you can imagine this is a very important step.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Imagine
  • Step
  • Controlled

• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beginning
  • Period
  • End

• The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Controlled
  • Properly

• I thought Eugene Lawrence was unbelievable out there. He controlled everything that went on out there.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Everything
  • Controlled
  • Eugene Lawrence

• Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Soul
  • Planets
  • Corporations

• I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Environment
  • Controlled
  • Wrestler

• We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Stories
  • Defined

• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Entrepreneur
  • Seeds
  • Defined

• I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

  

  Serena Williams
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Winning

• 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

• To feel controlled is to lose interest.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Interest
  • Lose
  • Controlled

• The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Men
  • May
  • Party

• The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Education
  • Aspirations
  • Defined

• You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Limits
  • Willing
  • Modesty

• Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational
  • Controlled

• & I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Money
  • Funny

• For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

  

  Norton Juster
  • Boys
  • Possibility
  • Rooms

• Reality is where your consciousness is located.

  

  Nevill Drury
  • Reality
  • Consciousness
  • Located

• We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

  

  Adi Da
  • Defined
  • Controlled
  • Transcended