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There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

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?

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

More and more often, victims are being denied jobs and being denied insurance as a result of their credit being destroyed by identity theft.

My sense is that her identity has been so associated with the morning news format that it will be difficult for her to make that transition and have the same kind of dominance that she enjoys in the morning.

Some criminals have learned that impersonating the deceased is a successful way to commit identity theft.

One of the things we learned from the survey is automation professionals do not have a well-defined professional identity in the manufacturing world. There is not a well-defined book of knowledge for automation professionals. The CAP program is a way of defining what an automation professional does and to give them recognition for those skills.

One thing that really helped me decide that I needed to go was their program of consolidating all the cars. I used to have a plate where they built my cars. One guy was the leader, they had a couple of 'grunts' around him and they built the car. That guy had spent 10 years of his life working up the stepladder to become a plate leader. Now, they have him putting right-front fenders on all five cars. The personality and identity is gone. I think that's a mistake as far as operating a business. We'll see how that turns out for them.

No one else is entitled to these records, the businesses who try to get them are committing a kind of identity theft which we're calling 'records rip-off'.

One area of interest to us is identity management. One technology that we would be interested in looking at is smart-card technology with respect to accessing IT services. We're interested in using smart cards for user log-ins.

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

Morales is acutely aware of the symbols, both in terms of the indigenous identity of the country and by setting the standard for cutting salaries.

No one should be able to peddle your private information for a profit without your express permission. Giving out this information to anyone who can pay the fee is a license to arm stalkers, criminals and identity thieves.

Maybe the person we apprehended assumed someone else's identity -- identity theft -- or it's an incredible coincidence that these men both had the exact same name and date of birth. If it's not him and he's released, that's showing that the system's checks and balances are in place and they do work. ... If it's not him, it's important that he be allowed to go free.

Plus, the group itself is going through kind of an identity crisis. Everybody is going through a process to become somebody else and most of them are still in the beginning phases of their transition.

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

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

I'd like to think that we're building an identity now.

If we can stop those sales, we will have stopped identity theft as we know it.

If they (the audience) are Jewish, they can express their identity without going to church or praying. It is not about beliefs, it's about music.

Love... asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claim to well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die.

When you consider all the identity theft that is taking place now, the challenge for RSA is to monetize that, ... It's easier said than done.

We need to make sure physicians are aware that women may need special tests and different diagnostic procedures to identity and treat cardiovascular disease. Future challenges will require more research to understand disparities in care.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix.

She is currently under investigation by a federal agency for identity theft,

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

So it's easier for identity thieves to take somebody's information and apply online.

The PRI is going to have a tremendous identity crisis. It's an internal cataclysm for them.

What identity thieves are after is a profile, and a profile includes a home address, your birth date and your Social Security number. We have so many employees working out there with false credentials.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

I thought a lot of girls wanna have their secret identity and have something they don't want to tell people about.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

I wouldn't be here this morning if President Bush had done the one thing required of him as commander in chief -- protect and defend the Constitution. The minute that Valerie Plame's identity was outed, he should have delivered a strict and strong message to his employees.

There are so many ways of using identity information. If you're the perpetrator you can skate around the alert.

Given rising public concerns over identity theft and cyber-fraud, we think adding a clear and simple guarantee will contribute to even greater peace of mind for our clients.

Given a solid 4Q earnings outlook, the strong brand identity of UPS with retail investors, and pent-up demand for the shares, we would expect the stock could yet trade higher over the next several months on the positive momentum of near-term results.

Fraud alerts don't stop creditors from getting the credit record or credit score. The only type of fraud alert available to consumers before they become victims of identity theft only lasts 90 days, and it doesn't even require the creditor to contact the consumer.

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For Qualcomm this has the potential to be a bit of an identity crisis,

I feel like I have my identity back.

I am dismayed the governor decided to veto a voter-oriented, good government piece of legislation, ... However, I understand this bill would have adversely affected his govern-by-initiative approach by forcing paid signature gatherers to reveal their true identity to voters.

If you are hit by identity thieves, time is of the essence. These guys are fast.

I don't think it's a good idea being that I work overseas a lot, a lot of things could happen with my information such as like you said identity theft.

If it turns out that Cheney was actively involved in decisions related to the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity and if the truth of it is that he was orchestrating the disclosure of information to the media, it seems to me that's a fundamentally different case than one centered around the activities of Libby.

I believe we can win any game throwing the football. Our identity is running the football and we're going to try to run it, but if a game calls for us to throw the football, I believe we can do that.

But as far as copying the blueprint, your team is your team. You have strengths, you have weaknesses. You have to figure out what your identity is as a team, make sure that stays the same, and then build strong around it.

Today, anyone's identity can be easily compromised, ... Today's ability to ensure a single person has a single identity is broken.

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

Hats off to Montesano, they played really well. They're a senior team and we're a young team still trying to find an identity still this late in the season.

Guys are accountable. They know what our identity is; they're hard-working and defense-minded. We want to be hard to play against.

Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people in the wake of World War II.

With more people getting involved, identity management is getting more complicated instead of simpler. A single solution would simplify the process, and all of these offerings do the same things.

He was out spending her money on her identity and he certainly was a dependent on her -- at least that's what she thought.

We lost our identity in Grand Forks and we needed to get back to doing the things that made us successful early in the year, namely playing better on defense and getting points in transition.

If someone steals your identity and goes into the hospital and has medical treatment, you will have a medical record in your name that doesn't match your body. All you do is put in an amendment that says you disagree with it.

Going into the playoffs, our mentality has to be opposed from the regular season -- that we're going to shut you down. We still know we can score. Our identity is defense.

Hispanics are said to be keeping themselves apart, avoiding the use of English, and declining to absorb on the spot the 'core' Protestant and individualist values that underpin the American way of life ... but precedent suggests that young Hispanics will eventually merge their identity in the larger American one, just as previous streams of immigrants have done.

He's found confidence, and I think he's found his identity with this football team.

He saw love as a radical challenge to the identity of men and women, ... His popularity on the screen is no accident: His take on sexuality, gender and love seems to speak to the way we see ourselves at the end of the 20th century.

Having civil and criminal identity theft penalties in place and continuing to inform Californians on how to prevent the theft of their personal or financial information will help stem this invasive crime.

He is able for more than 20 years -- without the Russians ever learning his identity -- to be a spy, to be a solid FBI analyst, to be a patriotic American, to commit treason, to be a church-going man and to have blood on his hands.

Within the identity protection and security industry, we face not only growing challenges related to protection of online consumer and business information, but also challenges related to making accurate, relevant information available to corporations, government and the public.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

We took all our knowledge on the full function product, called Tivoli Identity Manager, and worked with a number of mid-sized and small organizations, and channel partners, to identity what the primary needs of the marketplace are.

Spires is a tough kid. He's kind of tough to rattle, but then again, he's only a sophomore. Pugh is a lot like Glenbrook's Isaiah Stanley. I like to describe him as a bowling ball type of runner. After last week, we're still trying to find our identity on offense, but we know we'll have to run the ball better if we're going to improve over the year.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

Recent reports show ID theft topped the FTC list of fraud complaints again in 2005, indicating both heightened incidence and awareness of the crime. While awareness is an important first step for consumers, education is critical to preventing identity theft. This underscores the importance of experts like Lance in raising the visibility of best practices and emerging fraud tactics both on and offline, offering credible resources useful in protecting against the damage identity theft begets.

Sure, if you want your credit to be absolutely convenient, you would not select a credit freeze. But if you are a victim of identity theft, you would be happy to have that available to you. Ultimately, it is the only thing that will really stop identity theft.

Our relationship with Sterling Bank & Trust has been active for many years. They have steadily increased their involvement with us and have shared in our successes. This naming rights agreement puts the Sterling name and brand identity on a club that will set the standard for luxurious, upscale hospitality in Detroit and, for that matter, all of professional sports. Sterling has made a substantial investment in our new addition and we are confident that they are going to receive a great return.

Organizations are increasingly looking for single sign-on, access security and provisioning solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing applications and IT infrastructure. It is critical for healthcare organizations to implement a complete identity and access management solution that will not only streamline workflows to improve caregiver productivity, but also strengthen security and provide centralized identity and policy management.

Our real identity is one which appeals to the traditional families, hard-working young couples, the pensioners and students of Britain.

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to have a sense of place, an identity as a destination, and that's what these signs are designed to do.