I mean I kind of remember... I'm 36 now so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25 or 24 but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions from the detergent Mom always used to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

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.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

There are more than 30 states who either by statute or constitutional amendment have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape originally defined as abduction became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time to be not only use of but possession of or ownership.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know understand control or measure them.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Every country can be defined through their food their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

I had a fear of becoming anything a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor but if you become a doctor that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Mormons... are so strong they can handle wealth they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Moreover environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one in which information is given well-defined meaning better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.