Quotes About Identity

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada día, cuando termina el sueño, allí, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas...

no pasa media hora sin que me nazca una nueva personalidad.

Nos olvidamos, a veces, de nuestra sombra o es que nuestra sombra nos abandona de vez en cuando?

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr's claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

Vivete la vostra vita, quella che meglio vi corrisponde senza diventare preda dei luoghi comuni legati al successo. Siate voi stessi, profondamente, e sarete felici. E' questo il fine ultimo della vita. Otterrete una soddisfazione che nessuno potrà rubarvi.

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000)

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge followed by a long and as yet uncompleted process of coming to terms with the disasters it has produced and is still producing in many parts of the world.

The prayer type of religions are characterized by the idea that the Whole (God) exists outside the one who prays. In the meditation type, the individual is regarded as primarily identical with the Whole (God). This distinction is easy to understand.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.