Identity Quotes

• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

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

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Alone
  • Identity

• What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Work
  • Important
  • Reality

• When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Rock

• Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

  

  Kevin Conroy
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Batman

• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

  

  George McGovern
  • Identity

• I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

  

  Jay London
  • Worry
  • Identity

• When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Identity

• The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Book
  • Together

• I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Identity

• Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Women
  • Why
  • Culture

• I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Different
  • Identity

• All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • True
  • Identity

• I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Weird
  • Identity
  • Redefine

• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Black
  • Pride

• When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Identity

• The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

  

  Gena Rowlands
  • Identity

• Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Identity

• Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Black
  • Identity

• Some Shi'ites are asking that Islam be the only source of laws, which means turning Iraq into an Islamic regime, and that is unacceptable. We accept that the religion of Iraq is Islam, and we must respect Islam and the Islamic identity of Iraqi people. But we think Islam should only be one source of the Iraqi laws.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • People
  • Respect
  • Islamic

• Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Pride
  • Identity

• It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Identity
  • Slavery
  • Slave

• I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • People
  • Die
  • Alone

• I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

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