Identity Quotes

• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Identity

• One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

  

  Susan Burton
  • Work
  • Back
  • Deprived

• Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • Identity

• I've been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else.

  

  Lauv
  • Identity
  • Explore
  • Found

• There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Identity

• There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

  

  John Hume
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Identity

• I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Identity

• You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Identity

• 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

• The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Giving

• Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Running

• When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Dumb

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

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Identity

• 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

• Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Identity

• Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Age
  • Environment
  • Personality

• 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

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

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Alone
  • Identity

• If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Real
  • Identity

• I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

  

  Luis Guzman
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Business
  • Free
  • Relationship

• We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Job
  • Identity

• By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Identity
  • December

• The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity. (p. 369)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Identity

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