All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.
When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity.
I don’t think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that’s frozen in time. I’m more interested in transitions.
I really feel sorry for new generation. It’s hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
In England, we’ve spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
‘Solomon Creed’ is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity.
I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one’s own property is seen as privilege.
My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: ‘Who am I?’ ‘Who do I belong to?’ But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I’d better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.
We have fallen in love with the body. That’s that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That’s the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
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.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn’t work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar’s wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
How do you manage your online identity? It’s something I talk about with my students all the time.
Israeli independence – what we Arabs call al-Naqba, ‘The Catastrophe’ – it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.
I was a big athlete, but I think a lot of the things I did were because they were my false identity, if you will. They got me acceptance, and they got me that attention that I craved.
There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.
Right after ‘Raymond’ I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don’t like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. ‘What is my purpose? Who am I?’ I had a big identity crisis.
The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don’t behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.
Without work, so much of one’s identity just evaporates.
After ‘A Good Day to Die Hard,’ I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it’s all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn’t really get that.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ‘work’ of man.
I don’t know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don’t want anybody to know my identity. I’m like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
‘Nimona’ is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It’s not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn’t in there even at the conception of it.
Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.
I don’t direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that’s not what I’m looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
With the issue of immigration, it’s very difficult because, although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.
Each game in the postseason has its own identity.
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
It’s very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.
The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn’t mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I’m always trying to make a larger human statement.
Glasgow’s really friendly, with this impressive mix of real solidarity and identity that’s very personal.
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn’t until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.
Now I’m just known as McDreamy, I’ve lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I’m now McDreamy.
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I’ve definitely been through it – not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
Unfortunately, I think I drifted so much growing up that I don’t have a strong sense of identity. I don’t feel at home anywhere, and because of that, I think I’m more of a chameleon.
We’re a nation in search of an identity, but it’s quite exciting. I don’t regard it as a problem. It’s a challenge.
Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they’re like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I’m very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation.
