Quotes About Identity

Even as a child, I knew what the symbol of the Congress was.

Do you know I'm a sex symbol?

I love to be known as a sex symbol.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

I'm a sex symbol.

I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you're considered a sex symbol.

Once upon a time the 'GG' was a status symbol. It was the reason people were buying.

No matter what you think of him otherwise, there are no two ways about it - Narayana Murthy is inextricably linked to the modern Indian's sense of self. So also is Sachin Tendulkar. Every time he goes out to bat, he carries with him the dreams of a billion people. Like many sporting legends, he is an iconic symbol of our subliminal nationalism.

Asian men specifically have not been portrayed as the leading man or sex symbol.

Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don't walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.