My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

What shaped my politics regarding war and peace was Martin Luther King Jr., the most extraordinary person that I ever heard. And when he…

— Ron Dellums

Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how…

— Laura Ramirez

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing…

— Sissy Spacek

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

— Kate DiCamillo

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your…

— Michael Cudlitz

I don't think anything motivates you more than not having a job.

— Carson Palmer

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes…

— Lupe Fiasco

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

— Laila Robins

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play.…

— Michelle Monaghan

“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.”

— David Foster Wallace

There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to work perfectly with processed foods. All of them are…

— Michael Moss

“The present is shaped by the past.”

— Amine A. Ayad

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by…

— Douglas Kennedy

All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They are educated…

— Alice Rohrwacher