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Identity Quotes
On finding out who you really are.
One quote here describes a lifelong search for identity as both a performer and a writer of songs, tied closely to the identity of the band itself. Another speaks more broadly of coming from a young country and continent whose own cultural identity is still taking shape.
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Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
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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.
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The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
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Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
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The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
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I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don't have to become a vegetarian. It doesn't have to be an identity overhaul.
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At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.
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The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.
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Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
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I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
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