Quotes About Identity

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

I have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

I was allowed to take my adoptive father's surname. My birth certificate has a different name. My passport has both my adoptive and biological father's surnames.

I'm very proud that on my passport it says: 'broadcaster,' and that's what I see myself as.

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

Dia is the way my name was originally spelt. When I was applying for my passport for the Femina Miss India Contest, someone spelt my name as Diya. Since it was on my passport, I couldn't do much about it.

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

I exist only in the past.

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It's something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It's part of our history. It's part of us.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.