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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.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

I got Twitter identity theft.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

We don't have an identity as a team yet. We're a little lost.

We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We always score, so it's obvious our problem is in other areas.

We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We might play well one night and on another night we won't play well. We always score the ball and average 100 points, so obviously our problem is in other areas. Until we take care of those problems, we're going to continue to struggle.

We're like the unknown. But we're quietly doing our thing. I think some teams might be like, 'Let's get to the tournament,' but we have just gotten our own identity the last few weeks.

We re-established our identity. That's the identity we wanted to have going in, was to be a physical, tough-nosed team and a junkyard dog mentality.

We didn't deserve to win. We didn't play hard enough to win. This team is living on last year and until we find our own identity we are probably going to take a few more losses.

We sent AB back home to learn some more about ODI cricket. He had a bit of an identity crisis in this form of the game. I'm happy to see how well he did and we will definitely consider him.

We're kind of in that middle ground. We don't really have an identity yet.

This name and these colors forge an identity inspired by the city's entrepreneurial founders and worthy of its rich soccer history.

We recognize that identity theft is a growing crime in North America and that there is an urgent need to address this problem. Unfortunately, people often become victims by conducting routine business such as using credit cards or submitting personal information to employers or government agencies, not realizing that they may be exposing this confidential data to someone who will steal their identity without their knowledge or permission.

We are only as good as our sources, ... If they are mistaken, we will be wrong. And a source's confidence that we will not divulge their identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud, or abuse or other wrongdoing.

We are only as good as our sources. If they are mistaken, we will be wrong. And a source's confidence that we will not divulge their identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud, or abuse or other wrongdoing.

We are dedicated to providing our customers powerful solution offerings that deliver a scalable security backbone to support identity management across evolving corporate and IT landscapes, ... Siemens identity management solution complements our platform and business solutions in order to drive enhanced competitive advantage for our customer base.

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat, ... Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat. Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

We do believe we have the suspect identified. We are not releasing that identity because we are not 100 percent certain.

There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

We definitely played hard tonight and came out strong early. We came out and wanted to run them down early and that has been kind of our identity this year. We have been sticking to that.

The Democratic Party has an identity crisis on this issue. We need voices. We need leadership. But fear is driving them.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Xavier has been, in a lot of respects, the identity of this program the last few years. It's almost like he adds prestige to the team. In a lot of ways, he's helped raise the level of the other kids. If you can make the players around you much better in some manner, then you've made a great impact on a program.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

We want to be a part of the rebuilding process of New Orleans and we are dedicated to preserving the unique musical identity of our great city. I am in awe of the generosity and kindness of so many people and cities who are reaching out to provide us a home for this year's festival, the artists who are offering to perform and our fans and sponsors who are providing their continued support and patience during this difficult time.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

A people must have dignity and identity.

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

The dealers have to buy in, the suppliers, their shareholders, Wall Street. Each of those constituencies need to buy into the brand identity if it is to succeed.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

We believe that Wyndham Worldwide translates perfectly as the bold new identity for a company that provides consumers with the widest choice in global travel accommodations for virtually any occasion, price point and experience.

We're still young in our season, and we don't know what kind of identity we're going to have. We've had a good start, but we've got a long way to go.

We knew we had no choice but to come together or it's going to get worse. When you lose four out of five games and you go through what we went through, the best way to get an identity back is to make things hard. I thought our team really responded.

While people often think of identity management in 'defensive' terms, one of the most important benefits of IDMS is that it can help organizations to enable new services and business models that might otherwise be too risky too implement. Financial institutions, for example, are under increasing pressure to eliminate business line silos and take a company-wide view of their customers, in order to better provide them with the products and services that meet their individual needs. Yet, this imperative challenges traditional identity management processes, controls and governance structures. IDMS is designed to help our clients minimize risk and fraud loss, as well as, help them develop the new processes and governance they'll need to offer robust identity-based products and services.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

We were searching for an identity the first few weeks of the season,

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

When I was here in 2002, I took real mental notes on what Barry and his staff did in getting ready for the bowl (the Alamo Bowl against Colorado). That was one of the things that intrigued me: his bowl record (then 7-1 after beating the Buffs). I think both Mike and Barry have great plans for bowl games. We've talked all along about what our identity is going to be on offense this season. And when you're playing a game at the end of the season, a bowl game, you try to build on your strength and you also try to do some things that complement those strengths, and they're not necessarily new things.

There has to be a few widely accepted cards -- kind of the Visa and MasterCard of the identity world -- and it's not clear that anyone wants that job.

We would have a view to put forward, particularly about identity security and identity fraud, which is something that not only faces the Australian law enforcement community but the law enforcement community across the world.

We're trying to create an identity for ourselves, ... What Tony is big on is taking the ball away and pursuit to the ball.

If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.