Identity Quotes - Page 3

• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

  Roman Jakobson

  Problem, Classification, Solutions

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• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Religious, Islam, Tasks

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• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, World, Canada

  1967 'Canada: A Borderline Case', CBC radio broadcast, 29 May.

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• I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

  Nicole Kidman

  People, Acting, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Made, Feels, Vietnamese

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Events

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Catholic, Vitality

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

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• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Needs, Information, Financial

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• I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

  Dave Foley

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 15, 2002.

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• I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Culture, Emotion, Armenians

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• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Billy Corgan

  Teamwork, Thinking, Feet

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• We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

  George Wald

  Love Life, Mirrors, Lovely

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• You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.

  Joy Page

  Dream, Order, Manifest

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• A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

  Lucy Stone

  Husband, Names, Wife

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• People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

  Gregory Benford

  Self, People

  Gregory Benford (1997). “Foundation's Fear”, Harper Prism

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• Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

  Cyril Cusack

  Theatre, World, National Identity

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• Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Form, Mass

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religion, Gardening, Spirit

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• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Attention, Speed

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Quests, Violence, Form

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Respect, Country, Expression

  "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.

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• Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

  Matt Damon

  Years, Bourne Identity, Bourne

  "Matt and Ben: Hollywood's Unhappy Ending?", www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2004.

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

  Judith Butler

  Expression, Gender, Results

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Routledge

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