Identity Quotes - Page 9

• I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Self, Way, Lost

  "Miss Monica Lewinsky" by Chang Soon-hee, www.koreatimes.co.kr. December 11, 2014.

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• Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Two

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• We travel through the dark of the moon whenever… we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and sense of identity… What has been is no longer, and what is to come has not yet appeared.

  Demetra George

  Loss, Dark, Moon

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, Average

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• Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Video, Creation, Viral

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• As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

  Lev Grossman

  Running, Fear, Teenager

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, Viking Press

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• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

  Alfred Korzybski

  Negative, Fundamentals, Denial

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

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• The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, Persons

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Ego, Challenges

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.211, Harmony

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• Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Injustice, Cruelty

  Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.15, Nation Books

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• I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

  Mac Miller

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Mac Miller's 2014 Plans: 'I Have Four Albums Done'" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 02, 2014.

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• It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

  Spike Lee

  People, Black, Quests

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• From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Class, Age, Different

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• Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Class, Knows

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• I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Childhood, Important, Principles

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

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• If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.

  Larry Towell

  Thinking, Land, People

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• I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.

  Mona Hatoum

  People, Culture, Recipes

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• I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

  Catherine Opie

  Culture, Construction, Masculinity

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• Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.

  Karen Wheaton

  Real, Important, Found

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• When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black History, Underdog

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

  Emily Bronte

  Death, Sleep

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.96, The Floating Press

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• To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

  James A. Baldwin

  Way, Achieve, Asks

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• I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

  Cliff Martinez

  Believe, Hands, Cake

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• We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Males, Connections, Cost

  Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

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