Identity Quotes - Page 38

• Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

  Marilyn Manson

  Giving, Personality, Online

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Insecurity, Want

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• We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

  Leanne Payne

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

  Leanne Payne (1995). “The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ”, p.65, Baker Books

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• Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

  Dana Gioia

  Children, Secret Identity, Stories

  Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr

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• I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Writing, School, Kids

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

  Ben Schnetzer

  New York, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

  Ariel Pink

  Opposites, People, House

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Daughter, Wife, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Struggle, Thinking, Generations

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Fortune Cookie, Gay Marriage

  "This Scalia Zinger Is the Funniest Footnote to Come Out of the Supreme Court This Term" by Shane Ferro, www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Psych

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• I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Father, Way, Looks

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• The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Comfort, Made

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Real, Problem

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.28, Penguin

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• Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

  Max Anders

  People, Faithfulness, Obedience

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• If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Meaning Of Life, Fundamentals

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.12, Penguin

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• Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

  Timothy Keller

  Records, Good Person, Christ

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• Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

  Timothy Keller

  Accomplishment, Kind, Sin

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• If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Feels, Compelled, Built

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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• Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boston, California, Chinese

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• This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Reality, Play, Way

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.43, Penguin

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• The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

  James Arthur Ray

  Lying, Doe, Today

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• By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Diversity, Groups

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• [A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Important, Economics

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