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

  Chris Cornell

  Race, Car, Musical

  "Chris Cornell throws down". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2009.

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• No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Self, Parent, World

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Efficiency obliterates identity

  William Greider

  Efficiency

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Stronger, Expansion, Contradiction

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• I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

  Morley Callaghan

  Silly, Thinking, Sound

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• A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hurt, Individuality, Meaning Of Life

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• Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

  Mona Simpson

  Thinking, People, Wisconsin

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• In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Boss, Together

  Mike Krzyzewski (2009). “The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Mean, Men

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• My essential identity is that of a writer.

  Athol Fugard

  Essentials

  "Athol Fugard: Art Battling Apartheid and Aids". Interview with Brad Schreiber, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2008.

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• When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

  Steven Sater

  Ideas, Hip Hop, Hips

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• If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

  Frank Abagnale

  Information, Way, Birth

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• In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

  Bryan Stevenson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Dream, Country, Peaceful

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Purpose

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

  Scott McNealy

  Distance, Believe, Moving

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• For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Perspective, Long, Who We Are

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• Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

  John Stoltenberg

  Illusion, Lifetime, Strive

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.7, Routledge

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• Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

  Randall Wallace

  Culture, Storytelling, Activity

  "Comparing 'Heaven is for Real' with 'God’s Not Dead' + an interview with 'Heaven' writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.

  Ryan Gosling

  Art, Jobs, Character

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

  Tom Ford

  Voice, Appreciate, Tough Times

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

  Nate Parker

  Who We Are, Pieces, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Groups, West

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• Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

  Max Frisch

  Real, Alive, Shapes

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