Kim Gordon Quotes

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

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

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• 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
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• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• 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
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• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • Culture
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• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• 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

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• 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
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• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
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• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
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• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Young
  • Company
  • Teenager

• It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."

  

  Angel Abrea
  • Faith
  • Pray
  • Skeptics

• I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• 'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Hand

• I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Identity
  • Teenager