Top 1200 Personal Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

I've always been interested in androgyny and a lot of my work explores gender identity.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mother?s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

At times it may seem that our trials are focused on areas of our lives and parts of our souls with which we seem least able to cope. Since personal growth is an intended outcome of these challenges, it should come as no surprise that the trials can be very personal-almost laser guided to our particular needs or weaknesses.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

When I was younger, sure, I wanted to have some degree of, shall we say, identity. But it never came.

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.