Identity Quotes
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The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
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No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
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The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.
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If you live out of a negative identity, … others will always be cast in the mold of the enemy against whom you must struggle.
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.
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I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.
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There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
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The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people - those whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
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I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
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Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.
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My whole thing with the whole weight situation is - it is what it is. It's never been my identity.
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You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that sometimes your child's identity won't be what you would have chosen. And if you want to prevent a child from ever suffering? Well, then don't have a child. No one is born into the world never to suffer.
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If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.
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For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.
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There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
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Freedom of expression doesn't mean tweeting through fake accounts. If the government has to be transparent, Twitterati should also reciprocate. This will help stop defamatory and criminal traffic on the Net. We should amend the law to force disclosure of identity.
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I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
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'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'
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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity - he is continually informing - and filling some other body.
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
