In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils.
Deborah Ellis
ServiceSchoolIdentityPeopleWorld
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
IdentityYearsAcademicOnlyMany
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.
Amitava Kumar
IdentityWritingImportantFiction
I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'
Leonardo DiCaprio
TeacherSchoolIdentityParentsDone
There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary.
Randall Munroe
SmartIdentityBuildingEasyBecome
I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.
Chip Conley
WorkEyesMyselfIdentityFeelings
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
Vincent Cassel
FamilyFatherFightIdentityActing
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.
Amanda Foreman
WomenPracticeIdentityPrideKind
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is expected. It's important for North African writers to show they have other things to say.
Leila Slimani
IdentityPeopleImportantSayIslam
I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.
Patrick Modiano
HeartPastIdentityMeProblems
The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
Christopher Eccleston
FatherMotherRelationshipIdentity
You reach a point where you're trying to survive. You're just trying to put the ball in play. You're not yourself. You're searching for your identity as a hitter on a nightly basis. That's just really hard. And it is not atypical at all for players to need to change their environment in order to rediscover who they are.
Theo Epstein
ChangeYourselfIdentitySurviveYou
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
Stanley Hauerwas
I AmIdentityChurchNeverBeenAm
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Klaus Schwab
WorkFamilyCommunityIdentity
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Rachel Hunter
WomenTimeIdentityFindYoungLike
Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.
Chelsea Manning
CommunityFocusMedicalIdentityMe
Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They're often dead-named and misgendered.
Sarah McBride
FamilyIdentityPeopleEndDieBody
There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.
Stanley A. McChrystal
IdentityArmyYouGoneServeOnly
Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact that they were teenagers was a big deal for me. It was like, 'Oh, man, you don't have to be a 30-year-old to do this.'
Kevin Parker
ManIdentityMeRememberYouBig
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Os Guinness
VisionBalanceIdentityAmerican
We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.
Christo
WorkArtIdentityWorldBookWay
Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the degree of difficulty in imagining beyond their own borders is steep, and the failure rate is high.
Sarah Weinman
FailureCultureExperienceIdentity
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.
Steven Sater
MusicMyselfIdentityIdeasEndSay
You can't get along in society without an identity.
Justin Simien
IdentitySocietyYouWithoutGet
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