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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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Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.
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A people must have dignity and identity.
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Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
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All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.
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We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.
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I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
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Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.
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That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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