What until then seemed impossible to achieve has BECOME a fact of life. We have won the RIGHT to association in TRADE unions independent from the authorities, FOUNDED and shaped by the working PEOPLE themselves.

If I were to ASK you for example right now to go back with me and define those MOMENTS in your life that SHAPED you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would HAPPEN.

Where one PERSON SHAPES their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and CIRCUMSTANCES.

I GUESS I'm a REAL FAN of OLDER music, and that's what shaped my TASTE and the way I sing.

I THINK all of US are SHAPED by the CHOICES we MAKE.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious FAITH, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less INFLUENCED by movements and arguments of an explicitly CHRISTIAN CHARACTER than they were even FIVE years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the HEADLINES for a second, shaped by corporate DELIVERY most of the TIME, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

The MANY SOUNDS of Memphis SHAPED my early MUSICAL career and continue to be an inspiration to this DAY.

I spend quite a lot of time THINKING about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we READ, what we BUY, OFTEN who we talk to, is all SHAPED and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.

In so MANY WAYS, SEGREGATION SHAPED me, and EDUCATION liberated me.

As individuals, we are shaped by STORY from the time of BIRTH; we are FORMED by what we are told by our parents, our TEACHERS, our intimates.

I was SHAPED by my MISTAKES.

My IDENTITY is linked to my grandmother, who's pure FILIPINO, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I IDENTIFY.