Quotes by Identity It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. Jean Baudrillard asksforceidentity Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling. Jean Baudrillard fashionidentitypast If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. Jean-Francois Cope denialyour-smileidentity Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. Jean Baudrillard teethidentitymay Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. Jean Vanier who-we-areidentitywant Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients. Jeff Fisher designsuccessfulidentity The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate." Jeff Fisher phrasesdesignidentity I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely. Jeanette Winterson partyhateidentity We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau dareidentityasking Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely. Jeffrey Kluger horror-storieserrorsidentity Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jeffrey Eugenides icepersonalityidentity Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Jeffrey Zeldman designvoiceidentity Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture. Jennifer Beals identityculturepeople My identity is in Christ, not in basketball. Jeremy Lin basketballidentitychrist Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like Jerome Bruner simpleidentitythinking I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them. Jess C Scott painidentityself The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate. Jess Row debateidentitycomplicated I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender. Jess Row raceidentitypeople My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. Jessica Hagedorn grandmotherimaginationidentity He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither. Jim Goad one-dayidentitywind«2223242526272829303132»
