Identity Quotes - Page 30

• Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

  RuPaul

  Believe, People, Naked

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• Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

  Ralph Lauren

  Children, Car, Special

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

  Theo James

  Seductive, Way, Quiet

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Mean, Problem

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Cows, Realizing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.170, Grove Press

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• We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Reality, True Identity

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• The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Progress, Elements

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• The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will be there to fight all your battles, all you have to do is let him. Faith is very strong. Part of my life ministry is talking about God in terms of bringing back who I really am to the forefront of my identity.

  Gary Busey

  Strong, Adventure, Fighting

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Europe, Sea, Land

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• Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Men, Cognition

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.106, Penguin

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• In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Children, Fall

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Spring, Done

  Source: multiplymovement.wordpress.com

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• Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Voice, Goal

  "Discover A Real Mia Hamm: A Soccer Legend, An Advocate…". Celebrate Woman Interview, celebratewomantoday.com.

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• As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.

  Mario Testino

  Voice, Vocabulary, Growing

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• Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enemy, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: home.online.nl

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• "Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Would Be

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Space, Perception

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ocean, Vip, Fleeting

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.

  Thakoon Panichgul

  Fashion, Thinking, Individuality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Childhood, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Loss

  "Mock the Week". www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt. I hated being one half of a couple, without understanding that it wasn't the husband or the man I hated, it was situation, the identity.

  Vivian Gornick

  Couple, Husband, Men

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

  George Carlin

  Independent, Adolescence

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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