Identity Quotes

• You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

  

  Jerry Robinson
  • America
  • Identity
  • Superman

• I feel our brides are empowered women who know what they want and have a strong sense of their identity. Obviously, they love fashion and glamour.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Fashion

• Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Boy
  • Identity
  • Wrestling

• My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Heart
  • Identity

• More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Father
  • Taken
  • Identity

• My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Writing
  • Identity

• I think what is important, whether you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, is to embrace and own your identity. I think that's not political. That's good in life, and it certainly is the best way to be when you are running for office. If you don't do that, the voters will see through it.

  

  Joel Benenson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Progress
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Identity

• Since my dimples only appear whenever I smile, facing everything in life with that smile is a wonderful feeling. Eyes are also the window to one's self. Just a look can reflect your identity and experiences.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Identity

• Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.

  

  David Crystal
  • Society
  • Identity

• Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Positive
  • Independent

• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Alone
  • Identity

• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • Mother
  • Christian
  • Arabic

• I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Identity

• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Food

• In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Singing

• When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Action
  • Identity

• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Dying
  • Fool
  • Distance

• We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

  

  Frank Delaney
  • Identity

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