Quotes About Identity

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.