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Materialism is an identity crisis. -- Bryant H. McGill
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old. -- Sara Zarr
I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting. -- Matthew Rhys
As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis. -- Josh Hutcherson
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one. -- Anne Taintor
The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are. -- Christopher Eccleston
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. -- Ray Romano
God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives. -- Francis Chan
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis. -- Warren Farrell
There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that? -- Kathryn Schulz
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. -- E. O. Wilson
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors. -- Wynton Marsalis
The Western world is having an identity crisis. -- Marianne Williamson
The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America. -- Diana L. Eck
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. -- Jamie Lidell
Slim throws me a startled look. I aim my bolt shooter at him. Who am I, you sonofabitch?Helluva time for a identity crisis, he says." -- Moira Young
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two. -- Jane Leavy
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country. -- Tom Paulin
I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. -- Emily Haines
It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens. -- Luke Temple
It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots. -- eL Seed
I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?' -- Kim Gordon
After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that. -- Jai Courtney
I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing. -- Gina Prince-Bythewood
When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities. -- Sam Robards
I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station. -- Tom Waits
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement. -- Sam Keen
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way. -- James Hillman
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. -- Natalia Makarova
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
It's hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. -- Natalia Makarova

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