Quotes About Identity

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.