Identifying Quotes - Page 9

• When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Zoos, Sadness, Oakland

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.

  Billy Kennedy

  School, Kids, College

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

  Amy Ray

  Self, People, Be Who You Are

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• I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.

  Colin Munroe

  Underdog

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• The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

  David Hawkins

  Pet, Friendly, Identity

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• When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

  Arthur Koestler

  Passion, Men, History

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• You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

  Tony Blair

  Home, Interesting, Community

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Tree, Copying

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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• By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ignorance, Orthodoxy, Heresy

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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  Community, House, Generations

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• In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Drawing, Issues, Leader

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• I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Track, Needs

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• Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Way, Strange

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Running, Passion, Ideas

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.232, A&C Black

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• Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

  Graham Harvey

  Numbers, Labels, Use

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• Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

  Simon Heffer

  Political, Principles, Genius

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• I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

  Stephen Bayley

  Character, Planning, Failing

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

  Roger Waters

  People, Enemy, Population

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Rap, Men

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

  Jacob Neusner

  People, Needs, Answers

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• Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

  Kim Garst

  Target Audience, Focus, Messages

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• Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

  Stephen Dunn

  Order, Way, Patterns

  Stephen Dunn (2013). “Here and Now: Poems”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  Edward Goldsmith

  Nature, Real, Animal

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• Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings will drop out as soon as you start identifying your Self fully, fully with the spirit. Fully - again I say because we do not. We are still Christians. We are still Hindus. We are still Muslims. We are still Indians, English, this, that. We are still narrow-minded, small, little puddles. We have to be the ocean. Once you are identified with the ocean, you have to throw away everything and become absolutely clean and detached.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Christian, Wisdom

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