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Identity Quotes
"I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong."
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"When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it."
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"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
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"Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved..."
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"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
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"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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"He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too."
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"I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh."
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"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
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"I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However, I am becoming... Imagination. I am grabbing conception, and leaving humanity behind. Humans have lost their sight, and individuality makes people blind to the truth. It makes people believe that anything is possible. Only nothing is possible. But then again, my words are the words of no one."
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"I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I'm here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions change? Will I lose hope either way? My madness is what makes me. It's my most unique beauty."
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"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them."
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"Your digital footprints speak volumes than your CV."
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"I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris."
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"All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic."
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"The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."
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"Who am I? I'm the Breeze, bitch!"
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"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."
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"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us."
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"As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together."
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"Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."
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"Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'Western.' It was very noticeable among the Palestinians that the most demonstrably 'extreme' nationalists-and Marxists-were often from Christian backgrounds. George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh used to be celebrated examples of this phenomenon, long before anyone had heard of the cadres of Hamas, or Islamic Jihad. There was an element of overcompensation involved, or so I came to suspect."
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"You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all."
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"A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me."
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"The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation."
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"We are African in origin and American in birth."
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"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
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"I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that accumulates new sinsand to the ancient makes recompense.I am exiled from your worldof pride polite, by pride defrauded,I am the king without crown.I am the passion without wordswithout stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war,is my same force that make me sick."
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"Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be."
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"In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother."
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