#entity

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #company #controlling #diligence #due

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#arrangements #common #concern #delegate #entity

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#dialectic #disorder #identity #movement #narrative

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. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#character #constructing #constructs #her #his

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. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#alone #because #cameras #dressed #get

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. ↗

— Ray Romano

#am #attitude #big #crisis #emptiness

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. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#committee #consumer #efforts #fight #financial

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#approached #assembly #capable #destroyed #enemy

You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it. ↗

— Joy Page

#based #dream #identity #manifest #must

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity