Identity Quotes - Page 13

• If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Your Smile, Denial, Burqa

  "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

  Josh Gad

  Bullying, Thinking, Thieves

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

  Lianne La Havas

  Strong, Inspire, Knows

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

  Tom Hooper

  Patriotic, Cinema, Bases

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  LL Cool J

  People, Serious, Figures

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

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• Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

  Etgar Keret

  Mean, Issues, Doe

  "Etgar Keret: 'I feel more Jewish than Israeli'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  Walter Kohn

  Strong, Years, Jewish Identity

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• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  Manning Marable

  Black And White, Self, America

  Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Sympathy, Real, Rap

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

  Jean Nouvel

  New York, Character, Ideas

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• One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Narrative, Term, Immigrants

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• I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

  Andrej Pejic

  Identity Politics, Defining, Fans

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Apology, Color, Talking

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

  Matthew Rhys

  Acting, Crisis, Identity Crisis

  "The GQ+A: Matthew Rhys Channels The A-Team in The Americans". Interview with Freddie Campion, www.gq.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Powerful, Challenges, Ethics

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Views, Difficult Times, Something New

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• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  Taiye Selasi

  Creative, West, Cultural Identity

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• We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.

  Jim Harrison

  Men, Doors, Oneness

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• In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Fighting, Buddhism

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• Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Ego

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• It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

  Donatella Versace

  Years, Important, Evolve

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

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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  People, Experts, Boundaries

  "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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• I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Men, Thinking

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• Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired a physical identity, do not hesitate any longer to draw pictures and to set forth, for all to see, him who has chosen to let himself be seen.

  John of Damascus

  Size, Invisible, Magnitude

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