Identity Quotes - page 30

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. (Shari Sebbens)
A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family. View quote
Shari Sebbens
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity. View quote
Stephen Lang
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from. View quote
Steven Sater
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it. View quote
Sam Phillips
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. View quote
Samantha Morton
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old. View quote
Sara Zarr
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. View quote
Sarah Churchwell
The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person. View quote
Sebastian Seung
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life. View quote
Tia Mowry
My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me. (Troy Polamalu)
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it. View quote
Utkarsh Ambudkar
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. View quote
Walter Salles
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage. View quote
Charles Darwin
Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again. View quote
Geert Wilders
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in. View quote
Queen Latifah
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. (Lena Horne)
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. View quote
Maria Sharapova
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. View quote
Frank Abagnale
The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. View quote
Frank Abagnale
If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. View quote
Frank Abagnale