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.'