If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.
I have had so many beautiful memories with all of my celebrity partners! They all have shaped me into the person that I am today.
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.
The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.
Everything that I do is shaped by the experiences that I've had with my family and that I've heard in families all across the city who share the same struggles and dreams.
After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.
Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.
My fingers are crossed for 'Dekh Lena.' I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous.
To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.
Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.
I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.
There are lot of good things that happened to me in the industry and I'm very happy with the way my career has shaped up.
All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.
I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.
When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.
When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.
But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
Derby day in Buenos Aires is completely crazy and those sort of experiences have shaped me.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
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