Identity Quotes - page 26

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype. (Donny Osmond)
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. View quote
Doris Roberts
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits. View quote
Doug Liman
When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise. View quote
Doug Liman
I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise. View quote
Doug Liman
The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist. View quote
Doug Liman
I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now. View quote
Dave Foley
I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work. View quote
Emmanuel Jal
The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. View quote
Eric Church
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. View quote
Eric Liu
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. (Eric Liu)
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear. View quote
Erin Heatherton
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish. View quote
Eddi Reader
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture. View quote
Eddie Huang
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. View quote
Fred Wilson
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else. View quote
Felicia Day
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. View quote
Frank Delaney
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. (George Packer)
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine. View quote
Giancarlo Esposito
When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. View quote
Greg Lake
To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. View quote
Greg Lynn
The arts give us our identity as a community they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community. View quote
Gavin Newsom