Identity Quotes - Page 39

• That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

  Fergus McCann

  Football, Scotland, Important

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• My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Starting, Foreign Places, Starting Point

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.

  Torquil Campbell

  Song, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

  Todd Haynes

  Giving Up, Bisexual, Unique

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.

  Rula Jebreal

  Girl, Strong, Wall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

  Rula Jebreal

  Artist, Best Artist, Nationality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.

  Steven Harrison

  Enlightenment, World, Quests

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• When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

  Tammy Bruce

  Recovery, Empowerment, Enemy

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• Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

  Marilyn Manson

  Giving, Personality, Online

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Insecurity, Want

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• We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

  Leanne Payne

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

  Leanne Payne (1995). “The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ”, p.65, Baker Books

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• I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

  Ariel Pink

  Opposites, People, House

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Daughter, Wife, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Fortune Cookie, Gay Marriage

  "This Scalia Zinger Is the Funniest Footnote to Come Out of the Supreme Court This Term" by Shane Ferro, www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Psych

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• The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Real, Problem

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.28, Penguin

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• Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

  Max Anders

  People, Faithfulness, Obedience

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• Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

  Timothy Keller

  Records, Good Person, Christ

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• If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Feels, Compelled, Built

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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• Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boston, California, Chinese

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• The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

  James Arthur Ray

  Lying, Doe, Today

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• By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Diversity, Groups

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

  Brian Christian

  Intelligent, Views, People

  "The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2011.

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