The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.
~By Ken Salazar ~
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
~By Ron Chernow ~
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
~By Kate Millett ~
As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
~By Melissa Bean ~
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.
~By Josh Lucas ~
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
~By John Doerr ~
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
~By John Hume ~
The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
~By Jay London ~
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
~By Melissa Bean ~
I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.
~By Claudia Cardinale ~
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
~By Richard Grant ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
~By Alex Kapranos ~
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
~By Mathias Rust ~
Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
~By Matt Damon ~
2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
~By Marco Rubio ~
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
~By Lucy Stone ~
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
~By Jean Charest ~
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
~By Sallust ~
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
~By James Baldwin ~
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
~By Beatrice Webb ~
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
A people must have dignity and identity.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
~By Alan Dundes ~
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~By Carl Schurz ~
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
~By Robert Fripp ~
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
~By Edmund White ~
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
~By Louis Sullivan ~
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.
~By Dave Foley ~
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
~By Robert Casey ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
~By Fernando Flores ~
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
~By John Lone ~
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
~By Joy Page ~
Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.
~By Kevin Conroy ~
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
~By Judith Butler ~
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
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.
~By Greg Lake ~
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
~By Robert Trout ~
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
~By Claire Danes ~
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
~By Bob Anderson ~
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
~By Ron Lewis ~
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.
~By Betty Buckley ~
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
~By Charles Brenton Huggins ~
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
~By Peter Straub ~
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
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.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
~By Jon Johansen ~
We all need a firm sense of identity.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
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.
~By Walter Salles ~
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
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.
~By Doris Roberts ~
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
~By Brit Hume ~
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
~By John McGahern ~
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
~By Camille Paglia ~
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
~By Walter Kohn ~
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
~By Betty Buckley ~
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