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• We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Expression, Identity

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Identity

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

  Samuel Cornelius Phillips

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Trying, 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

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  Barbara Corcoran

  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

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Identity, Physical

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity

• The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let’s get out of here.

  Bob Kerrey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Problem

• 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

• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Identity

• Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Proof

• 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

• We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Expanding

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

  Claudia Cardinale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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

• We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Singularity, Quality, Identity