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• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity

• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Present, Identity

• We have fallen in love with the body. That’s that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That’s the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

  George Wald

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Repository, Identity

• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

  George McGovern

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• Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you’re from, what your class is – those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

  Stanley Crouch

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Identity

• When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

  Jaron Lanier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consequence, Identity
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  First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Plans, Identity, Purpose, Intention

• Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I’m trying to do that as well.

  Adam Lambert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Important

• The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

  Slobodan Milosevic

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat, Identity, Loss

• I can’t give up my own identity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity

• The thing about acting is you don’t want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It’s a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

  Gena Rowlands

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting, Enjoyable, Identity

• But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

  Claudia Cardinale

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  Tags in Strong, Personality, Identity

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sponsor, Announcement, Identity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Industry, Identity

• I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

  Samuel Cornelius Phillips

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  Tags in Music, Trying, Identity

• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  Christopher Eccleston

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  Tags in Need, Identity

• An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

  James Baldwin

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  Tags in Arrived, Identity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Audience, Identity

• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  William Patrick Corgan Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Blaming

• An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

  Robyn Hitchcock

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  Tags in Child, Identity