Identity Quotes - Page 35

• Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s First Female Engineer: ‘It Was Difficult To Break Into The Boys’ Club’". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2011.

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• When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

  Doug Liman

  Phones, Shooting, Pay

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

  Doug Liman

  Paris, Sneaking Around, Style

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• I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

  Doug Liman

  Careers, Impact, Film

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

  Ann Leckie

  Together, Ordinary, Fiction

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Foundation

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• Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Brother, Integrity, Heart

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• People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.

  Bradley Horowitz

  People, Google, Use

  "Google minus: underperforming social network Google+ scaled back" by Hannah Jane Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2015.

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• Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Parent, Written

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• Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

  Jacques Derrida

  Looks, Cry, Traps

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University Press

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• I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Facts, Hiding

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there are no fixed identities. He would have thought that someone calling himself a Buddhist has too much invested in calling himself a Buddhist.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhist, Errors, People

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

  Erin Heatherton

  Sports, Block, Exercise

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all) that existed up to and including the 1930s, when different classes lived all together in the same neighborhoods, and most businesses of any sort were mom-and-pop, and people and things had a local identity.

  Luc Sante

  Mom, New York, Class

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Self, Who We Are

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Self, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you see someone, you automatically start putting those people together - the eyes and the lips. And what that does is that it creates an identity with that person, so when they actually start working, the audience sees exactly what you're seeing, and they become recognizable. So instant recognition is when certain women and men have features that look like other people. So baby Gisele is, like, Linda V - that's what she was called for a long time.

  Michael Flutie

  Baby, Eye, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.

  Jami Floyd

  Giving Up, Writing, Hair

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.

  Le1f

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.

  Matt Reeves

  Girl, Growing Up, Being Single

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Kids, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapness to everything, where everything becomes throwaway. And people, I think, have started to undervalue things, maybe because there's too much, maybe because it's too easy to make, but I think mostly just because, somehow, that's the pattern that got set. And I think that's regrettable.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Musical, Training, Location

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Reality, Ideas, Space

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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