Identity Quotes - Page 27

• Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

  Matthew Weiner

  Drama, Way

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• I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, School, Kids

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• [T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of people.

  Amanda Marcotte

  People, Choices, Pro Life

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• Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.

  Griffin Jay

  Fate, Masters, Mines

  "Fictional character: Armand Tesla". "The Return of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• ...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Mother, Self Worth, Opportunity

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
  The god inside the car

  Roy Fuller

  Pigs, Car

  Roy Fuller (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Carcanet

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• In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Two, Culture, Elements

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.

  Zick Rubin

  Children, Play, Skills

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• I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Artist, Who I Am, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Insecure, Thinking

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Identity Politics, Important, Example

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Country, School, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.

  Nick Cave

  Stars, Rocks, People

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

  Bruce Feiler

  Meaningful, Religious, Book

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Heart, Self

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.26, Bantam

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• Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

  Lauren Berlant

  Self, Needs, Caption

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• We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Generations, Gender

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• Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Loss, Night, Long

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.

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• One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.

  Terrance Hayes

  Smart, Book, Achievement

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• I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

  Cliff Martinez

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

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• The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Women, Home, Kids

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• There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

  Michael Lewis

  Art, Views, Followers

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