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.
Mercedes Ruehl
TimeIdentitySocietyNewDifficult
In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.
Lynn Collins
IdentityCareerMy OwnOwnShow
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
Sam Phillips
MusicBlack And WhiteIdentityBlack
The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.
Donald Wuerl
EducationFreedomHealthIdentity
'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.
Alex Pettyfer
GreatI AmIdentityDestinyStory
Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.
Ana Navarro
PoliticsIdentityNobodyDonald Trump
Match the right food to the right occasion. Think about what you are celebrating. If you are honoring people, what are their favorite foods? If it is a holiday, what is the food for it? When you give an identity to the party, people appreciate that.
Lidia Bastianich
FoodIdentityPeopleThinkYouGive
By giving young Americans a stake in the outcome of their communities, we can renew our civic identity while providing people with skills and experiences that they can use throughout their lives.
Tae Yoo
IdentityPeopleGivingYoungSkills
Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Deborah Harkness
IdentityPridePrejudiceFixWithout
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.
Alan Dundes
IdentityImportantGroupWaySocial
I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.
Amor Towles
LifeChildrenIdentityWritingTwo
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
Kenneth L. Pike
PersonalityIdentityImportantForm
I'm a proud Londoner, a Brit, European, of Pakistani heritage, a Muslim - we all have multiple layers of identity - that's what makes us who we are.
Sadiq Khan
IdentityProudHeritageUsLayers
One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
LearningI AmIdentityGeneration
For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.
Virgil Abloh
GirlPersonalityIdentityMeNew
Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.
Stephen Chbosky
LifeMusicIdentityMeMy LifeFind
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.
Ken Salazar
JobIdentityLineServeTheftRole
There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
R. J. Cutler
GirlIdentityGrowAmericanCountry
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
Christopher Hitchens
HumbleIdentityPeopleHelpYoung
Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
Vince Staples
IdentityStandFeelWayProjectOwn
One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.
Stephanie Coontz
WomenMenProgressIdentityGender
Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.
Klaus Schwab
ResponsibilityIdentityEnvironmental
Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
Patrick Dempsey
IdentityLostNowJustKnown
By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq.
Chelsea Manning
IdentityGenderDecemberComeJust
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