Top Identity Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Identity quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Joss Whedon
To accept duality is to earn identity.
- Joss Whedon
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Image of Joss Whedon
Identity is something that you are constantly earning.
- Joss Whedon
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Image of Bill Johnson
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
- Bill Johnson
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Image of Mary E. Pearson
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
- Mary E. Pearson
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Image of Mary E. Pearson
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
- Mary E. Pearson
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Image of Wei Wu Wei
What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
- Wei Wu Wei
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Image of Elizabeth Blackwell
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
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Image of Pat Metheny
Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!
- Pat Metheny
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Image of Jacqueline Susann
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
- Jacqueline Susann
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Image of Jacqueline Susann
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.
- Jacqueline Susann
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Image of Ingrid Betancourt
Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.
- Ingrid Betancourt
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Image of Erving Goffman
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
- Erving Goffman
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Image of Erving Goffman
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
- Erving Goffman
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Image of Jan Neruda
At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.
- Jan Neruda
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Image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Image of Clay Shirky
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
- Clay Shirky
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Image of Tullian Tchividjian
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
- Tullian Tchividjian
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Image of Leslie Feinberg
I reserve my right to be complex.
- Leslie Feinberg
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Image of Donna J. Haraway
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
- Donna J. Haraway
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Image of Irvine Welsh
When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.
- Irvine Welsh
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Image of Nick Joaquín
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.
- Nick Joaquín
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Image of Masha Gessen
When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.
- Masha Gessen
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Image of Paige Rense
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
- Paige Rense
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Image of Fred Savage
As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.
- Fred Savage
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Image of J. D. Greear
It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
- J. D. Greear
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Image of Joseph O'Neill
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
- Joseph O'Neill
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Image of Andrew Comiskey
The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.
- Andrew Comiskey
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Image of Judith Butler
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
- Judith Butler
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Image of Tilda Swinton
I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.
- Tilda Swinton
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Image of Tilda Swinton
Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.
- Tilda Swinton
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Image of Alice von Hildebrand
There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.
- Alice von Hildebrand
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Image of Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
- Louis Sullivan
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Image of John of Damascus
Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired a physical identity, do not hesitate any longer to draw pictures and to set forth, for all to see, him who has chosen to let himself be seen.
- John of Damascus
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Image of George Shearing
If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
- George Shearing
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Image of Mat Johnson
I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.
- Mat Johnson
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Image of Nate Parker
Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.
- Nate Parker
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Image of Shari Sebbens
A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.
- Shari Sebbens
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Image of Kevin Bales
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
- Kevin Bales
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Image of Kenzo Tange
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.
- Kenzo Tange
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Image of Fela Kuti
I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.
- Fela Kuti
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Image of Laurie Penny
Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.
- Laurie Penny
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Image of Cate Marvin
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.
- Cate Marvin
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Image of Valerie Harper
Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.
- Valerie Harper
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Image of Ian Harvie
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.
- Ian Harvie
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Image of Fred Sandback
The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.
- Fred Sandback
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Image of John Stoltenberg
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.
- John Stoltenberg
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Image of Alexander Chee
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!
- Alexander Chee
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Image of Catherine Opie
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
- Catherine Opie
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Image of Dana Gioia
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
- Dana Gioia
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