Time is the enemy of identity
I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.
Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.
Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash. Some people think that is inspiration. There is no more inspiration than there is expiration; and never was anything got for nothing.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender. . . identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood. . . I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.
You see in others who you are.
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.
