Identity Quotes - Page 33

• When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.

  James Redfield

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

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• There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Men, Mind

  "No Country for Old Men Novel by Cormac McCarthy". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

  Ann Romney

  Mother, Thinking, Doctors

  "Ann Romney on her battle with multiple sclerosis and the race for the White House". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2015.

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• The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Immigration, Trends

  "Devout Muslim Preaches His Love For America". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 6, 2015.

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• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

  Joan Cusack

  Rocks, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Hate, Book, Design

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

  James Ellroy

  Grandchildren, Issues, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

  Esra Saydam

  Directors, Demographics, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

  Salma Hayek

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Puss in Boots - Salma Hayek interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Character, Hands

  "Masses, Power and the Elegance of Sentences". Interview with Brigitte Desalm, perival.com. October 27, 1992.

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• There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.

  George Foreman

  Writing, Fighting, Boys

  "Is Floyd Mayweather the 'best ever'? George Foreman and a Muhammad Ali intimate weigh in" by Mike Woods, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2015.

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• What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Easier

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• The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

  David Rockwell

  Design, Cuisine, Chef

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Movement, Opponents, Threatening

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• After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Spiritual, Self, Personality

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.165, Delphi Classics

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• I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Selfish, Party, Men

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• Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

  Brian Eno

  Notable, Interaction, Objects

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Country, Grandparent, Culture

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• Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  National Identity, Nations

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• The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine

  Roy MacGregor

  Country, Home, Winter

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• Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ice, Personality, Cracks

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.125, A&C Black

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