As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

- Julie Bishop

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

- Jim Crace

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

- Jill Soloway

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

- Jill Soloway

I was shaped by my mistakes.

- Janice Dickinson

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

- Janice Dickinson

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

- John Ortberg

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

- Justin Trudeau

If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.

- Deng Ming-Dao

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

- Andy Dick

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

- Don DeLillo

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

- Denis McDonough

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.

- David Suzuki

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

- Chris Carter

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

- Bryan Brown

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

- Bill Walton

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

- Aman Mojadidi

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

- Anthony Shadid

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

- Adam Hochschild