#identity

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#identity #iranian #iranians #islamic #other

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. ↗

— David Blunkett

#confidence #identity #our #people #reinforcing

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. ↗

— Chris Evert

#girl #give #give me #helped #i

In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease. ↗

— Connie Britton

#around #bunch #ease #felt #friday

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money. ↗

— Jane Campion

#arty #been #career #corrupting #doing

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. ↗

— Eric Church

#having #identity #important #important thing #me

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#identity #meet #reply #she #smile

Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life. Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill. ↗

— Judy Byington

#crime #cult #dissociation #dissociative-identity-diroder #human-sacrifice

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#contain #got #how #identity #matter