Identity Quotes - Page 37

• Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Names, Labels, Definitions

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• The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Reality, Men, Self

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• I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

  Elton John

  Independent, People, Resentment

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Depth, Culture

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• If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

  Karl E. Weick

  Reality, People, Should

  Karl E. Weick (1995). “Sensemaking in Organizations”, p.35, SAGE

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• It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

  Mick Dodson

  Grateful, Landscape

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• It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

  M. Scott Peck

  Religious, Buddhist, Home

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• No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Beautiful, Lying, Character

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

  Wally Olins

  Littles, Significant, Branding

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• Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Stressed, Three, Messages

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• Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

  George W. Bush

  Feelings, Stealing, Poor

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

  Fergus McCann

  Football, Scotland, Important

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• We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

  Dale Peck

  Fun, Kids, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Starting, Foreign Places, Starting Point

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.

  Torquil Campbell

  Song, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

  Todd Haynes

  Giving Up, Bisexual, Unique

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

  Steve Cosson

  Unique, Past, Shapes

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.

  Rula Jebreal

  Girl, Strong, Wall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

  Rula Jebreal

  Artist, Best Artist, Nationality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Objectivity, Ideas, Perfect

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• We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.

  Steven Harrison

  Enlightenment, World, Quests

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• When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

  Tammy Bruce

  Recovery, Empowerment, Enemy

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• Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Flesh, Spirit

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