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Quotes About Identity

Dis-moi ce que to manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -- (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are)
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Ayla should have been the son of my mate." Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear.
~ Jean Auel
There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile... Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
~ Jean Baudrillard
All societies end up wearing masks.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
~ Jean Baudrillard
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
~ Jean Claude Van Damme
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
~ Jean Claude Van Damme
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
~ Jean Cocteau
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~ Jean Cocteau
I am a lie that always speaks the truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
I'm worried that the lady's going to be a hooker - and you're afraid she's BETTY CROCKER! Molly Jane Fletcher
~ Jean Davies Okimoto
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Oare încerc?m sau suntem capabili vreodat? s? în?elegem ceea ce nu suntem?
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Eu sunt mai aproape de tata: el î?i punea speran?ele într-o schimbare bazat? pe amintire. M? împart, ca el, între aceste dou? lumi apuse, pline de str?lucire ?i de for??: schimbarea ?i amintirea. ?i, între una ?i alta, refuz s? aleg.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
nici unul din noi nu este nimic altceva decât ceea ce lumea din jurul lui a hot?rât c? este.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.
~ Jean Dubuffet
counted themselves among California's established
~ Jean Edward Smith
It's always hard to follow in the footsteps of a legend, especially when you don't even want to.
~ Jean Ferris
I long to see Christ's life formed in me. I want to become the person God had in mind when He created me.
~ Jean Fleming