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Quotes About Identity

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.
~ John Petrucci
I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.
~ Julia Holter
It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.
~ Amaal Mallik
When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?
~ Trevor Paglen
I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.
~ Fabolous
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.
~ Stromae
I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.
~ Trace Lysette
I want to build a name through my roles and will not compromise with what is offered to me.
~ Rao Ramesh
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.
~ Mike Cernovich
I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.
~ Tom Stoppard
We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.
~ Terrance Hayes
If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.
~ Frank Abagnale
I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.
~ Will Ferrell
I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'
~ Bill Callahan
Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
~ Dyan Cannon
Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.'
~ Akira Toriyama
I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
~ Malin Akerman
You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
~ Gus Van Sant
The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.
~ Lia Ices
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.
~ Beppe Grillo
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
~ Patricia Hewitt