Identity Quotes

• Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I'm always working on the same thing, the creation of an identity. It's mysterious: We think identity is genetically given, but I believe there is creative will involved with the decision of who we are going to be. All my movies are concerned with this.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Believe
  • Decision
  • Mysterious

• I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Believe
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• When we tour, there's always this unique quality to every town you visit... Touring, you get a sense of a collective identity for different cities. That's one of the things I love about my job.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Quality

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Identity
  • Nation
  • Cards

• People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Parents

• 'Ek Hazaaron Mein' turned out to be my identity, it made me Nia Sharma in the industry.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Identity

• Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Up
  • God
  • Character

• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Driving

• 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
  • Identity
  • Sacrifice
  • Security

• Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Quality
  • Belief

• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Wish
  • Crisis

• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Identity
  • Exciting
  • Codified

• Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Most
  • Iran

• It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Guy
  • Identity
  • Police

• My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Different
  • She
  • Remember

• It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

  

  Amy Chua
  • May
  • American
  • America

• 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

• When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Simple
  • Red
  • Wine

• I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Identity

• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Entrepreneur

• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Perplexed

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