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 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

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison