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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

~Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

~Adam Braun

Topics: Answered Anything Asked Began Begging Born Boy Could Defining Dream Give Had He Him India Journey Luckily Me My Journey Pencil Pocket Second Single Streets Through Took Traveling Two Want While Words World Would You

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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: America Center Change Characters Conflicts Defining Desires Each Every Fiction Find Grow Her Here His Individualism Job Motivations Obstacles Other Our Ourselves Overcome Own People Person Stories Story Tell Toward

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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

~Adam Savage

Topics: Adulthood Care Consequences Defining Going Heavy Here Lifting Moments Nobody Realization Suffer Take Take Care Think Well While You I Think

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'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.

~Adam Scott

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There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

~Aisha Hinds

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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.

~Alaya Dawn Johnson

Topics: Big Defining Entirely Fact Feature Government Idea Important In Fact Kings Led Limit Men Most Out Queen Roles Rule Shut Strictly Summer System Term The Most Important Women Years

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I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

~Alycia Debnam-Carey

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My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

~Amanda Palmer

Topics: Anything Box Defining Doing Feel Feminist Goal Like Minute Myself Name Never Songwriter Strictly Stuck Theatrical I Feel I Feel Like

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

~Anatole France

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