IDENTITY QUOTES

• Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  ~ Walt Whitman ~
• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• Your originality is your identity and personality. So, don't fake it by imitation
  ~ Effi David ~
• Your originality is your identity and personality. So, don't fake it by imitation. You're trading self value to nothing than imitation when trying to be like someone else.
  ~ Effi David ~
• The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
  ~ Ll Cool J ~
• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
  ~ Ll Cool J ~
• I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
  ~ Joseph Gordon-levitt ~
• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
  ~ Barbara Corcoran ~
• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
  ~ Barbara Corcoran ~
• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
  ~ Sachin Tendulkar ~
• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
  ~ Karen Armstrong ~
• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
  ~ Tom Hooper ~
• Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
  ~ Mark Zuckerberg ~
• I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
  ~ Marilyn Manson ~
• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
  ~ Anne Lamott ~
• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
  ~ Anne Lamott ~
• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
  ~ Anne Lamott ~
• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
  ~ Ron Fournier ~
• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
  ~ Ron Fournier ~
• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
  ~ Ron Fournier ~
• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
  ~ Chuck Palahniuk ~
• Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
  ~ Chuck Palahniuk ~
• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
  ~ Jon Meacham ~
• Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
  ~ Jon Meacham ~
• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
  ~ Jon Meacham ~
• Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
  ~ Diane Kruger ~
• What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
  ~ Thomas Frank ~
• 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 ~
• Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
  ~ Maria Sharapova ~
• Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
  ~ Woodrow Wilson ~