Identity Quotes - Page 32

• As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

  Fred Savage

  Directors, Entertainment, Consumers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

  Pope Francis

  People, Aliens, Lifestyle

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.

  Jane Roberts

  Healing, Past, Thinking

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• When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Religious, Judging

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• We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Generations, Development

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• Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Skills, India

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• I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

  Carrie Fisher

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.

  Matt Damon

  Talking, Hopeful, Community

  "Matt Damon Talks ‘Promised Land’, Writing, Directing & Reuniting with Affleck". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Blow, Who I Am, Color

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

  Ayana Mathis

  Writing, Aspiration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.

  John Gardner

  Community, Levels, Ethical

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

  Erik Erikson

  War, Mean, Men

  "The Problem of Ego Identity", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.

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• In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

  Erik Erikson

  Feelings, Alive, Social

  ERIK H. ERIKSON (1968). “Identity Youth and Crisis”

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• All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

  Jack London

  Childhood, Soul, Awareness Of Others

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Love, Religious, Horizon

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

  Bill Johnson

  Intimacy, Royalty, Assignments

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Father, People

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

  Tom Allen

  Party, Together, Sides

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• The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

  Erik Erikson

  Self, Ability, Continuity

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, Roots

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• I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

  John Howard

  Country, Destiny, Thinking

  "Howard reasserts right to decide cultural identity". The Age, September 20, 1988.

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