Quotes by Identity 2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation. Marco Rubio republicanchoicesidentity We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be. Marcel Proust drawingidentitygiving I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere. Margaret Cho identitypeoplethinking human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight. Margaret Mead identitysufferingculture I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it. Maria Shriver identitylosingjobs Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. Maria Sharapova styleinspirationidentity For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes. Mariela Castro innovationrevolutionaryidentity Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either. Marilyn Manson personalityidentitygiving I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else. Marina and the Diamonds differentidentityplay I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that. Marina and the Diamonds who-i-amartistidentity We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark. Marine Le Pen identitypeopleideas As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing. Mario Testino vocabularyvoiceidentity I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living. Marjane Satrapi iranwestidentity I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. Marilyn Manson marriedadultsidentity Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering. Mark Driscoll identitysufferingjoy Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives. Mahatma Gandhi cowsidentitymen We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging. Mark Kingwell identityfactsthinking My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it. Mark McMorris african-americanlabelsidentity All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire. Mark McMorris insecureempiresidentity With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment. Mark Rothko associationidentityorder«3132333435363738394041»
