A Quote by Todd Haynes

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

Todd Haynes

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Absorb Big Culture Define Dominant Elements Margin Motion Outside Quo Society Status Status Quo Sucking Those Thrust

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Todd Haynes
American - Director
Born: January 2, 1961

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Amma Asante

I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Donatella Versace

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

Lucy Boynton

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

Isaac Asimov

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Katie Leclerc

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

Nicky Gumbel

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Lee Strobel

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

Wallace Shawn

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

Cynthia Daignault

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.