Quotes of: Personal-identity Keyword

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Harold Brodkey

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Carlos Ghosn

High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

India de Beaufort

The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

Kelly Wearstler

Zeniba: [about Yubaba] We're identical twins and exact opposites.

Spirited Away

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Jean-Francois Cope

Nykwana Wombosi: If you are going to kill me, kill me dead!

The Bourne Identity

Marie: [Rhetorically] Who pays $20,000 for a ride to Paris?

The Bourne Identity

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Alex Kapranos

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

Trinny Woodall

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Matt Taibbi

While the concept of the muse is noteworthy, the development of the muse has changed substantially in today's online world. The tables have practically turned as the artist who is responsible for creating music in today's world is now being the muse ...

CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture

Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800 meter race. Becoming a mature adult means, among other...

Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls—Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins

We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. " All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child. Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn't really describe it, and in frustratio...

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

July 15, 1991 Nita: Mv mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. “Don't you see what's going on in this house?” To this day, if somehow even in jest ra...

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

As the social matrix becomes increasingly subject to rapid fluctuations, throwing out anchors into a collectivised past becomes more prominent than movement into a future. The desire to establish a core identity within the profusion of styles has led...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sandals that crowded the entrance to everyone's home; ...

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly ...

Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of...

Diriye Osman

Great institutions have leaders who are proud of what they do, and who engage with everyone who makes up those institutions, so each person understands their role. But our jailers are generally granted near-total anonymity, like the cartoon execution...

Orange Is the New Black

I will teach my daughter to color outside the lines, to make mistakes, to take risks, and not be afraid to fail. I will teach her that even when the world tries to knock her down the best revenge is getting up and forging ahead. I will teach her to b...

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity