Stephen Dunn Quotes

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

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

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Identity
  • Equality
  • Blow

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  

  Manning Marable
  • May
  • America
  • Black

• I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Character
  • Identity

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

  

  James Norman Hall
  • Peace
  • Lost
  • Identity

• The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Life
  • Men
  • Growth

• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  

  Alan Rudolph
  • Truth
  • Moments
  • Identity

• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Passion

• In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Career
  • Identity

• I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Identity

• We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

  

  Deborah Ellis
  • Up
  • Live
  • War

• When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

  

  Kristanna Loken
  • Time

• I mean, I don't write for kids.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Kids

• We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Women
  • Career
  • Strong

• My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Work

• I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Identity
  • Juicy