#entity

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#entity #i #into #kind #looking

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black and white #establish #had #i #identity

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

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#integrity #experience

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#been #camps #exile #home #identity

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#although #anything #armenian #beginning #culture

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. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #aspect #assumed #certainly #concept

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#among #contemporary #country #expression #his