Identity Quotes - Page 6

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

  Edmund White

  Teenager, Together, Might

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• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

  George McGovern

  Campaigns, Cases, Tragic

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

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• 2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

  Marco Rubio

  Choices, Republican, Referendums

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• My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Grandmother, Imagination, Filipino

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• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  Betty Buckley

  Feminist, Feminism, Way

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• My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

  Marlon Riggs

  Struggle, Gay, Men

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• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, People, Iranian

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• Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

  John McGahern

  Rain, Sky, Ireland And The Irish

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

  Chip Conley

  Keys, Self, World

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

  Ron Chernow

  New York, National Identity, International

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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  George Harrison

  Mistake, Self, People

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• An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

  Haile Selassie

  Past, Personality, Essentials

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• I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

  Kurt Cobain

  Growing Up, Kids, Rocks

  "Popular music, gender, and postmodernism" by Neil Nehring, (p. 94), 1997.

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• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Carpe Diem, Men, May

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

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• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  Kate Millett

  Responsibility, Mute

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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• And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Being Yourself, Believe, Remember

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.76, Vintage

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• Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Journey, Space, Silence

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• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

  Wentworth Miller

  Luxury, Support, Community

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• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Ocean, Independent, Men

  "Book Of Happiness". Book by Jagdish Gupta, 2013.

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• A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Knowledge, True Identity, Law

  "In Tune with the Infinite".

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• But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

  Louis Sullivan

  Ornaments, Architecture, Building

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• Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  James Norman Hall

  Car, Community, Lost Friendship

  "Under a Thatched Roof".

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• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Islamic, Ethnicity, Aggravation

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