Identity Quotes - Page 5

• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

  Stephen Covey

  Strength, Self Esteem, Emotional

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

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• It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Doe, Want

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.50, Vintage

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• An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Opening Up, Doe, Path

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, May

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  Camille Paglia

  Mom, Mother, Fall

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.23, Vintage

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• I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

  Jay London

  Worry, Needs, Want

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Likes And Dislikes, Likes

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• Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

  Lena Horne

  Black, Black Women, Clear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

  Lisa Kudrow

  Careers, Actors, Down And

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Aug 12, 2011

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• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Organization, Political

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• An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Children

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• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Idle, Personal Identity

  "Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quote" by Dr. A.N. P. Ummerkutty, p. 77, August, 2005.

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• Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

  Stanley Crouch

  Country, Class, Aspect

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• I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

  Claire Danes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  Bella Abzug

  Coffee, Meeting Someone, Sunglasses

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• My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Race, Diversity

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• Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Teeth, May, Wonderful

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

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• Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

  Melissa Bean

  Growing, Crime, Theft

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• One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

  Charles Brenton Huggins

  Justice, Pits, Blind

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• Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

  Robert Trout

  Happiness, Education, People

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• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Needs, Firm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environmental, Violence, Pornography

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye, p. 514, 1987.

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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