Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.

AnnaLynne McCord

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

Clay Shirky

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Doris Roberts

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.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Chuck Palahniuk

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Andrew Solomon

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Aesop

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Alex Kapranos

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

David Whyte

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Dan Simmons

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Cyril Cusack

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Cyril Cusack

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Tom Hall

I think it's about celebrating identity more than trying to teach people about tolerance.

There are so many ways of using identity information. If you're the perpetrator you can skate around the alert.

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Lindsey Hunter

Going into the playoffs, our mentality has to be opposed from the regular season -- that we're going to shut you down. We still know we can score. Our identity is defense.

With more people getting involved, identity management is getting more complicated instead of simpler. A single solution would simplify the process, and all of these offerings do the same things.

I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as say, identity theft.

If we can stop those sales, we will have stopped identity theft as we know it.

Charles Curtis

With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape,

Ram Dass

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

People are getting a little more savvy in understanding that identity thieves do this.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

I think even more so than ever in the past. And I think Northern Virginia is starting to have its own identity that is separate from Washington.

Betty Buckley

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

Jimmy Carter

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

John O'Donohue

Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.

Frank Abagnale

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

Eckhart Tolle

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

Jose Saramago

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Kevin Bales

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.