Best 2380 quotes in «identity quotes» category

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

[Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna­ - the one you saw - we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that's when things are changing so quickly. It's like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.