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Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. -- Donna J. Haraway
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that? -- Paula Scher
Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients. -- Jeff Fisher
For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery. -- Louise Erdrich
Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body. -- Maajid Nawaz
This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent. -- David Corn
Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me. -- Lianne La Havas
The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities. -- Geoff Johns
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. -- Barbara Kruger
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. -- Frank Delaney
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings. -- Pearl Cleage
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. -- Maya Angelou
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world. -- Vladimir Putin
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. -- Spike Lee
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. -- Amartya Sen
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship. -- Robert Reich
Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice. -- Sharon Salzberg
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. -- Mel Brooks
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. -- Jim Ryun
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. -- F. Sionil Jose
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? -- Simon Sinek
Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities. -- Linda Thompson
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. -- Ziad Doueiri
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model. -- Mac Miller
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally. -- Des Browne
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. -- Sebastian Junger
For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise. -- Gary Frank
People have multiple identities. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Dreams are manifestations of identities. -- Kathy Acker
Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. -- Raquel Cepeda
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. -- bell hooks
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. -- Rick Springfield
Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations. -- Bryant McGill
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. -- John le Carre
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities. -- Bryant McGill
I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that. -- Leos Carax
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. -- John Stoltenberg
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. -- Matisyahu
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. -- Debasish Mridha
Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks. -- Brooke Hauser
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. -- Taiye Selasi
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. -- Paula Spencer
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens. -- Dana Gioia
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. -- David Whyte
Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted. -- Lisa Cholodenko
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. -- Timothy Garton Ash
I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities. -- Dana Spiotta
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. -- Audre Lorde
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. -- Catherine Opie
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. -- Hugh Laurie
Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance. -- Amy Leach
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities. -- Michael Kenna
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists? -- Karl E. Weick
What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities. -- Eminem
You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion. -- Susan Abulhawa
Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen. -- Krista Tippett
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. -- Amartya Sen
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. -- Samuel P. Huntington
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. -- Andrew Solomon
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities. -- Jonathan Friesen
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear. -- Roseanne Barr
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. -- Erica Jong
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives. -- Janet Fitch
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men. -- Andrea Dworkin
Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations. -- Donald Trump
I'm not club-able, you see. I don't like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I'd hate to join anything, however loosely. -- Jeanette Winterson
I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive. -- David Papineau
We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities. -- Michel Foucault
Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism. -- David Papineau
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. -- Frank P. Ramsey
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on. -- Mary J. Blige
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. -- Frank P. Ramsey
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many. -- Al Gore
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live. -- Lacey Mosley
I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences. -- Steve Cosson
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time -- John Green
It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace [Dunham] is a really amazing educational resource. -- Lena Dunham
By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards. -- Evan Osnos
You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually. -- Neil Gaiman
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. -- Archie Shepp
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? -- Judith Butler
I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from. -- Jill Soloway
I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride and strength for me. -- Sally Kohn
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. -- John Perry Barlow
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. -- Lester Bangs
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. -- bell hooks
What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way. -- Henry Giroux
I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities. -- Alex Hirsch
Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence. -- Tony Robbins
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities. -- Peter Kreeft
Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping. -- Joe Meno
In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example. -- Tim Wu
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place. -- Gayle Forman
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities -- David Loy
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient, -- Pierre Cardin
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. -- Terry Eagleton
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians. -- Pankaj Mishra
Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on. -- Trevor Noah
Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance. -- Tom Boellstorff
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. -- Alain de Botton
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate. -- Ian Harvie
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry. -- Thurston Moore
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry -- Thurston Moore

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