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Identity Quotes
"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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"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
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"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
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"I will reveal you who I am. I am your reflection."
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"It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity."
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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 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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"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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"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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"There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not."
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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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"Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!"
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"Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?"
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"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
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"Be different.. be yourself."
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"At once, it's clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don't have the arrogance. Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable for ferocity. I'm not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all."
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"So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
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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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"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."
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"If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo."
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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"You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you."
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"I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape."
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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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"Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin."
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"It's impossible, he snapped. "Why? "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that."
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"There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Live your uniqueness!"
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"I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not."
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"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian."
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"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
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"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."
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"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
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