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My hair is my identity. -- Ethan Zohn
I have no issues with my identity. -- Rashida Jones
I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity. -- Malala Yousafzai
A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family. -- Shari Sebbens
My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me. -- Troy Polamalu
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work. -- Josh Lucas
It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish. -- Mili Avital
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. -- Brian Aldiss
I can't give up my own identity. -- Shirley MacLaine
My essential identity is that of a writer. -- Athol Fugard
I want an identity outside of my work. -- Leighton Meester
I needed to be myself and find my own identity. -- Bill Skarsgard
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life. -- Ang Lee
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. -- Dalia Mogahed
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. -- Lena Horne
I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style. -- Owen Hart
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. -- Melissa Gilbert
I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting. -- Matthew Rhys
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. -- Matisyahu
I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity. -- Lisa Cholodenko
My newspaper job "¦ is my identity. -- Roger Ebert
Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping! -- Sophie Kinsella
The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity. -- Lauryn Hill
I always put my identity at the forefront of my music. -- Lotic
As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity. -- Wole Soyinka
Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it! -- Pat Metheny
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. -- Bill Johnson
I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid. -- Bre Pettis
My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. -- MH Mahdi
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity. -- Charles Dickens
I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it. -- Maria Shriver
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity. -- Gelsey Kirkland
My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! -- Alexander Chee
Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in. -- Robert Breault
I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier. -- Jonathan Heatt
...as I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity. -- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now. -- Masiela Lusha
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost. -- Lucy Stone
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost -- Lucy Stone
I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person. -- Troye Sivan
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine. -- Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be? -- Lakshmi Mittal
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. -- Ayana Mathis
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity. -- W. Kamau Bell
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. -- Mary E. Pearson
I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work. -- Emmanuel Jal
I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs. -- Adrian Tomine
I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it! -- Patsy Cline
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. -- Eckhart Tolle
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India. -- Shashi Tharoor
I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me. -- Mary Lambert
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man. -- LeBron James
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. -- Amin Maalouf
I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. -- Ben Sollee
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. -- Claire Danes
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity. -- Twyla Tharp
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity. -- Kathryn Harrison
I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport. -- Tony Dungy
What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master. -- Anthony de Mello
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good. -- Vaclav Havel
I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do. -- Michael Buble
Now that parking meters have shifted from quarters to credit cards, I worry someone will steal my identity, my wallet, and my car and drive around town parking all over the place. -- Jarod Kintz
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin. -- Mona Simpson
My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care. -- Jessica Alba
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. -- Veronica Roth
I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church. -- Julianna Baggott
I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. -- Shari Sebbens
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies. -- LL Cool J
I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here. -- Gerard Way
Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever. -- Tony Robbins
Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write. -- Mika
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. -- Ayad Akhtar
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. -- Marilyn Manson
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function. -- Eckhart Tolle
Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection. -- Teju Cole
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. -- David Sedaris
Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment. -- Jason Bateman
I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country. -- Sho Baraka
I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while. -- Erin Heatherton
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist. -- Betty Buckley
Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. -- Tina Fey
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. -- Ralph Ellison
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. -- Luis Guzman
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings -- Radmilla Cody
As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media. -- James St. James
After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. -- Mathias Rust
When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity. -- eL Seed
People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity. -- Joel Stein
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person. -- Sebastian Seung
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself -- Amin Maalouf
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance. -- Parker J. Palmer
In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease. -- Connie Britton
I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity. -- Rachel Dolezal
I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision. -- Trent Reznor
I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be? -- Ralph Ellison
My identity is in Christ, not in basketball. -- Jeremy Lin
I have my own identity as a player. -- Carmelo Anthony
My most important identity now is as a mother. -- Chelsea Clinton
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. -- Sylvia Plath
I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity. -- Dennis Rodman
My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child. -- Aspen Matis
My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better -- Peter MacNicol
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork. -- Jill Soloway
variety comes from choice of many in oneand create a new another color as my own identity . -- lity munshi
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. -- Arthur Ashe
I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity. -- Lynn Collins
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. -- Kenneth Noland

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