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I can't give up my own identity. -- Shirley MacLaine
I needed to be myself and find my own identity. -- Bill Skarsgard
I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style. -- Owen Hart
No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. -- Ronnie Spector
I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby. -- Abbey Clancy
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. -- Michael Douglas
Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same. -- Kurt Busch
In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity. -- Lynn Collins
High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity. -- India de Beaufort
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life. -- Tia Mowry
When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity. -- Hugo Weaving
I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same. -- ASAP Ferg
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. -- Beatrice Webb
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about. -- Keifer Thompson
I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered. -- Alice Dreger
The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business. -- Joe Nichols
I have my own identity as a player. -- Carmelo Anthony
Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity. -- Erich Fromm
With every character, you alter, you can't be attached to your own identity. -- Nicole Kidman
variety comes from choice of many in oneand create a new another color as my own identity . -- lity munshi
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity. -- Bill Ayers
Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor. -- Dolph Lundgren
I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit. -- Eddy de Clercq
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. -- Yvor Winters
What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with. -- Shirley MacLaine
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different. -- Abhishek Bachchan
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
The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates. -- Anthony Storr
To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. -- James A. Baldwin
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity. -- Vincent Cassel
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. -- John Ciardi
So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations. -- Diane Abbott
In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger. -- Gaspar Noe
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused. -- James McGreevey
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
A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been. -- John Williams
You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way [as sexy and beautiful] to explore your own identity and make something of it. -- Amber Heard
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his. -- James A. Baldwin
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster. -- Howard Hodgkin
The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me. -- Kevin DeYoung
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. -- Raquel Cepeda
I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity. -- Michael Mando
I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them. -- Greta Scacchi
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. -- Thomas Merton
I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people. -- Salma Hayek
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values. -- Amalia Kahana-Carmon
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. -- Carson McCullers
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses. -- Carl Zimmer
My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are. -- Jenny Eclair
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. -- Herman Melville
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock. -- Page McConnell
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible. -- Eli Pariser
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality. -- Deepak Chopra
The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity. -- Hiromi
Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America. -- Cynthia Daignault
children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, can support yourself, and have already begun the work of creating or maintaining an extended family. -- Phyllis Chesler
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar. -- Jimmy Page
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity. -- Peter Lindbergh
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life. -- Stedman Graham
The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity. -- Elijah Muhammad
I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe. -- Kobe Bryant
This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing. -- Geert Wilders
I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously. -- George Orwell
All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves. -- Thomas Metzinger
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. -- Richard Wagner
I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that Perry Mason and myself have come to the parting of the road. Perry Mason has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep Perry Mason. -- Raymond Burr
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person. -- W. Kamau Bell
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life. -- Paul Bloom
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in. -- Queen Latifah
I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.' -- Raymond Burr
I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family. -- Linda Goldstein Knowlton
When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference. -- Neva Coyle
Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it. -- Drew Goddard
It's all risk. And if it isn't, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesn't take you so far out of your own identity that it's not a you that you recognize who's doing the writing. -- Jim Krusoe
The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism. -- Donald Wuerl
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. -- Rudyard Kipling
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity. -- Robert Casey
When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. -- Marc Webb
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. -- Kenneth Noland
Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows. -- Will Hermes
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show. -- Jacqueline Susann
When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. -- Marc Webb
For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity. -- Chris Brogan
Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. -- Bharath Mamidoju
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. -- Raquel Cepeda
Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks. -- Gisele Bundchen
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. -- Jay Neugeboren
The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. -- Karen Armstrong
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
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it. -- Joy Page
Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music. -- Lizzy Plapinger
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. -- Juan Goytisolo
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We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within. -- Jane Fulton Alt
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity. -- Eckhart Tolle
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. -- Carl Schurz
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity. -- Amy Tan
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
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours. -- Aga Khan IV
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. -- Morley Callaghan
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity. -- Herman Melville
The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott. -- Mary J. Blige
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. -- Jenny Shipley

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