Quotes About Identity

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have." "An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be "an artist." After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

White is an attitude.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you