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Identity Quotes
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
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"Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation."
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"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."
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"I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan."
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"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"
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"I can't apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to."
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"Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!"
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"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."
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"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"
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"You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under the shower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peacefully. You are those words that you will never say while speaking with someone. You are those scars that you always hide from everyone. You are those little secrets that you will never let the world know. You are everything that you hide under the identity that you call the real you."
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"You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act..."
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"And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors."
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"The greatest thing about me isn't even a part of me. It's you."
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"I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else."
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"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
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"Nations are not made by mere geographical boundaries; they are forged by the character and aspirations of their people."
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"He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence."
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"No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies..."
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"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."
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"Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings' identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing's existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise."
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"I don t care what name you called me before, give me a new name. My old name is not important but my new name is very important. Did they call you Barren? your new name is pregnant."
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"Are you bisexual""Labels were invented for people like you who can't grasp a reality outside of a defined gender role. I like what i like."
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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
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"I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do."
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"His eyes widened. "Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn't think less of you."
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"It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim."
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"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."
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"Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary."
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"I am not a women that takes anything for granted, I'll lay endlessly With you and talk about meaningful and logical, I'll watch the stars at midnight and the way they twinkle back; to let me know they see me too, I'll wind the window down just to feel the breeze, I'll turn the music up when I love a song, I'll sit with the ocean when I feel lost, I'll cry when my heart hurts & I'll listen to you when yours is hurting too, I know the kind of women I am, and im not shy in showing her to the world."
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"I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent, it just had to be something you lived with."
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"The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among."
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