Identity Quotes - Page 12

• We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

  Diane Arbus

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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• In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

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• I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Important, Technique

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 18, 2015

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• One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  John Paul Stevens

  Years, Law, Judging

  Bush v. Gore (dissenting opinion) (2000)

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• Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

  Jerome Bruner

  Simple, Thinking, Matter

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• I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

  Kitty Kelley

  Father, Feelings, Deny

  "Oprah’s Aunt Katharine’s Denials May Be Pressure From Oprah" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

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• My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

  John Turturro

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Believe, True Identity, Play

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• Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

  Marilyn French

  Simple, Over You, Trying

  marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”

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• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Data, Names

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Israel, Tension, Nationality

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• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Believe, Self, Problem

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

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• The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

  Lester Bangs

  Strong, Real, Personality

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

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• Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

  Terry Eagleton

  Writing, Past, Secret

  "Conquering history" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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• When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

  Greg Lake

  Years, Two, Numbers

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• When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

  Claire Danes

  Responsibility, College, Thinking

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• I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

  Michael Ealy

  Dream, Drama, Intelligent

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• When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, People

  Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Voice

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• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Discipline, Body

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Essentials

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Light, Self, Practice

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• [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Years, Risk

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• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  Jane Campion

  Careers, Important, Why Not

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