Identity Quotes - Page 40

• I have two little kids and I enjoy watching movies with them, and I can't watch every movie with them. Sometimes it's because it's obviously not appropriate to watch The Bourne Identity with your kids, but a lot of times it's because it's torture to watch the movies that they want to watch, as a parent.

  Rob Letterman

  Kids, Two, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

  Lotic

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Attitude, Trying, Groups

  Rineke Dijkstra (2001). “פרויקט יישרעלי”

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• Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Good Luck, Luck, Medication

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• I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Cities, Foundation, World

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• The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

  Victor Burgin

  Reality, Coherence, Favour

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• The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

  Victor Burgin

  Political, Doe, Photograph

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• In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Erotic, Style, Essentials

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• The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

  David Loy

  Mind, Junk, Needs

  David Loy (2010). “The World Is Made of Stories”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

  William Blake

  Intuition, Harmony, Invention

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.659, Univ of California Press

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• I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

  Patsy Cline

  Thinking, Who I Am, Found

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• In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.

  Robert Lawlor

  Powerful, Taken, Numbers

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• Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

  John Fowles

  Love Is, Two, People

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• This is the first thing the Holy Spirit does in your life. He brings you God's presence, and when He does, you will no longer be in the dark. The Holy Spirit has a beautiful identity. He is called 'The Angel of God's presence.' He is the One Who brings us the presence of God and makes it real to us.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.8, LoveWorld Publishing

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• There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Simple, Self, Effort

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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  Patrick Stump

  Hate, Meat, Dresses

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• To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

  Mooji

  Hypnosis, Joy, Conditioning

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• You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

  Stephen Lang

  Play, Creating, Environment

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• Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

  Sara Maitland

  Important, Well Being, Raises

  Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

  James Hillman

  Self, Play, Mind

  James Hillman (1983). “Healing fiction”

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• The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Self, Knowing

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

  Mary J. Blige

  Careers, Lost

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• The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

  Mary J. Blige

  Feelings, Mary J Blige, Persons

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• The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Insight is the God given ability for you to know your Identity, your Kingdom ID; your spiritual DNA; your uniqueness in the earth and in the Body of Christ. There is no one like you. You are predestined for Greatness.

  Chuck Pierce

  Spiritual, Greatness, Dna

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