Quotes by Identity I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. Doris Roberts camerasidentityleave-me-alone Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. Dorothy West resistanceidentityself A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. Doug Berry accountabilitycorporationsidentity When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise. Doug Liman shootingphonesidentity I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise. Doug Liman impactcareersidentity When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him. D.T. Suzuki opponentsmovementidentity The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s. E. J. Dionne battleidentitywar Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. E. O. Wilson identityselfclass The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. Eckhart Tolle patternsparticularidentity She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship. E. M. Forster magicelbowsidentity I think one of the London Film Festival strengths is that it's set in London but it's not about London. It's about the diversity of this city and it's about world cinema. And that's what London is - London is a place where its identity is always in a state of flux. So, this festival celebrates the way in which it is always changing. That's why London is a fascinating place and that's why the film festival is a fascinating film festival. Eddie Marsan diversityidentitythinking But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture. Eddie Huang cookingidentitywriting I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit. Eddy de Clercq identityspiritthinking Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically. Edgar Schein atheismidentitycommitment Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality. Edmund Blair Bolles individualityvisionidentity The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. Eckhart Tolle painbodyidentity As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together Edmund White teenageridentitytogether As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it. Eckhart Tolle painidentitylong Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form. Eckhart Tolle identitynamespast Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet. Edward Bernays invisiblecabinetsidentity«1112131415161718192021»
