#identity

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. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#am #being #component #i #i am

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. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#identity #keep #mind #off #out

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#because #given #had #i #identity

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. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#identity #inferiors #made #must #national

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity. ↗

— John Hume

#come #identity #protect #reach #should

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back. ↗

— Delta Burke

#actress #always #am #anything #back

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. ↗

— Matt Damon

#before #bourne #came #hadn #i