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Identity Quotes
"Once you label me you negate me."
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
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"Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist."
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"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."
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"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
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"They're tulip seeds, the symbol of our country.But, more than that, they represent a truth you must learn. These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die."
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"We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside."
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"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
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"I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials."
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"Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy."
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"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."
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"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
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"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."
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"Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are."
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"Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride."
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"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
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"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
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"I am many things. Stupid is not one of them. Your wrath is impressive for a mortal."
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"You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?"
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"Why don't you speak for yourself John?"
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"There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States."
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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."
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"I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, she whispered. "I want it more than anything. But I'm only pretending. I can't find the feeling of it inside."
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"My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles, and learning to change between different roles with the same easiness that you change shirt."
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"Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake."
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"Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?"
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"But whence came this curious difference between them? He found that he could point to no single feature wherein the difference resided, yet it was impossible to ignore. One could try - Ransom has tried a hundred times - to put it into words. He has said that Malacandra was like rhythm and Perelandra like melody. He has said that Malacandra affected him like a quantitative, Perelandra like an accentual, metre. He thinks that the first held in his hand something like a spear, but the hands of the other were open, with the palms towards him. But I don't know that any of these attempts has helped me much. At all events what Ransom saw at that moment was the real meaning of gender."
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"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not."
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