Identity Quotes - Page 11

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

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.

Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity-advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

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