Quotes About Identity

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Hex had forgone his dark blue trenchcoat in favor of a short, black leather jacket. He was wearing a t-shirt that said "I saved the Earth and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Hex

Interested in the guy's name?" "Nah. Drop him in front of a door and we could call him Mat," I said.

I was the black sheep. I never knew love until I lost it. The last few centuries I've had a lot of time to think, and my conclusion is that others' opinions may be part of why I turned out how I did.

Home? Home is where they don't tie you to a rock and drip acid on you. And sometimes it isn't." -Loki, Norse god of Mischief

Jeanie's the type who is only wearing black until they come up with something darker.

Two people do not lose themselves at the identical moment, or else they might find each other, and be saved. It is not as simple as that.

I mean one can be so remote in spirit from one's actual father -or mother- it's as though one doesn't belong to them. Spiritually," he dared, "one can be someone else's child.

The Lord must have been delighted to call Peter out of his obvious weakness into God's stunning strength by giving him a new name, Rock, designating Peter as a steady place to stand.

certain other aspects of language—for example, individual vocabulary items—can be taught at any time. Learners' acquisition of these variational features appears to depend on factors such as motivation, the learners' sense of identity, language aptitude, and the quality of instruction, including how learners' identities and cultures are acknowledged in the classroom.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. - Gloria

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

What is nothing? I impetuously asked. -It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free.

He wasn't certain whether he was a good or bad person. Whether he was altruistic. Whether he was demonic. But he was certain of one thing. He was an artist. And for that he would never apologize.

I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.