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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? -- Matthew Weiner
Creating Identity -- Mohit Manke
Identity is invariably false to facts. -- Alfred Korzybski
Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes. -- Neil Gaiman
Identity is an assemblage of constellations. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. -- Ayn Rand
Identity is something that you are constantly earning. -- Joss Whedon
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. -- William Stanley Jevons
Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left. -- Charles Krauthammer
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity. -- Helen Vendler
Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive. -- Steve Inskeep
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. -- Jean Baudrillard
Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica) -- Shannon A. Thompson
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. -- David Quammen
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. -- Dennis Quaid
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. -- Dannie Abse
Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. -- Ben Bernanke
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. -- John Lahr
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. -- Daniel Finkelstein
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution. -- Andrew Solomon
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. -- Dorothy West
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. -- Thabo Mbeki
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. -- M. John Harrison
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran -- Patricia Briggs
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. -- Margaret Halsey
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. -- Melissa Bean
Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. -- Matt Damon
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. -- Ambrose Bierce
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. -- Emma Donoghue
The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. -- Kenneth G. Mills
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. -- Eric Liu
I'm so excited about 'Identity Thief'. It's such a good comedy, and I'm excited for people to go out and see it! -- Genesis Rodriguez
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. -- Ambrose Bierce
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe. -- Barack Obama
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Guns are part of the American identity. -- Henry Rollins
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity. -- Park Chan-wook
A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity. -- Malala Yousafzai
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. -- Ron Chernow
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. -- Lena Horne
Identity theft is like true love... you never think it will happen to you... -- JOHNNY CORN
You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves. -- Chris Matakas
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. -- Woodrow Wilson
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. -- AnnaLynne McCord
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. -- Marshall McLuhan
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. -- Haile Selassie
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. -- Fernando Flores
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. -- Sachin Tendulkar
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. -- Erik Erikson
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. -- Stephen Covey
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity. -- Chip Conley
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. -- Judith Butler
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. -- Salman Rushdie
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. -- Julie Delpy
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. -- Louise Fresco
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. -- Robert Trout
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. -- Tila Tequila
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. -- Joshua Ferris
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 -- Edmund White
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. -- Joseph Campbell
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. -- George R. R. Martin
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. -- Rollo May
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. -- Sarah Churchwell
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? -- Ismail Haniyeh
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity. -- Stephen Chbosky
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us. -- Bill Viola
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. -- Rachel Cusk
The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. -- Frank Abagnale
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference. -- Charles M. Blow
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. -- James A. Baldwin
My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. -- Hiam Abbass
Shall I be'her'? -- Colin Clark
Be as advertised. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
Normal is unique! -- Blin Varfi
Angela Wexler, person -- Ellen Raskin
We owe ourselves our lives. -- Teju Cole
Anyone could be anybody. (Eric) -- Shannon A. Thompson
To create myself from nothing. -- S.J. Watson
I am a cultural Frankenstein -- Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
I am a cultural Frankinstein -- Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Dreams are manifestations of identities. -- Kathy Acker
We are what we are... -- Kesha
What makes you a chaffinch? -- Helen Macdonald
Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza. -- Michel Foucault
What we invent, we become -- Marty Rubin
What we love we are. -- Robert Lowell
I miss my old life -- Richard C. Morais
The more I did i -- Megan Abbott
Through others we become ourselves. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
In all your getting, get understanding. -- Jacqueline Woodson
Time doesn't age you; experience does. -- Doug Cooper
Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience. -- Doug Cooper
All tastes are expressions of belief. -- Zadie Smith
The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm. -- Aporva Kala
Pain makes people who they are. -- David Arnold
How do you eat your roots? -- Kamila Shamsie
Mind makes a man of God. -- Emmanuel Diogu
Time is the enemy of identity -- Michael Moorcock
No one knows me. Not anymore -- Zoë Marriott
Unless I speak, you won't see me. -- Marty Rubin
Your identity doesn't come from your address. -- Denise Hunter
Salt water is and isn't the ocean. -- Marty Rubin
You get to decide what to worship. -- David Foster Wallace
Everything is music for the born musician. -- Romain Rolland
Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. -- Katie McGarry
How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery. -- Brenda Shaughnessy
I am a citizen of the world. -- Sylvia Beach
Be as thou wast wont to be. -- William Shakespeare
I protect myself by refusing to know myself. -- Floriano Martins
People change, though, especially after they are dead. -- Margaret Atwood
Felt good, though, just being what I was. -- Tom Spanbauer

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