I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy. – Misty Copeland
For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, ‘We’re east-coast. We’re New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.’ – Kevin Bacon
There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals. – Michael Eric Dyson
I don’t care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity. – Khloe Kardashian
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn’t have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it’s sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I’m social, frankly. – Liz Phair
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity. – Joanna Scott
You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people. – Mark Zuckerberg
Tokyo – still – offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets. – Jan Chipchase
It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. – John Gurdon
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. – Kenneth L. Pike
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten – with art, but with no sense of identity. – John Lone
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can’t reply to your smile. It’s a denial of identity. – Jean-Francois Cope
It’s true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be? – Lakshmi Mittal
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did. – Mark Zuckerberg
Your brand is your public identity, what you’re trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear. – Lisa Gansky
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way. – Kevin DeYoung
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love. – Lukas Foss
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It’s not just creating a hit show – it’s building shows to back up that hit show; it’s creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network. – Leslie Moonves
I’ve always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I’ve never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist. – Marina and the Diamonds
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn’t even have a Muslim identity. – Maajid Nawaz
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. – Marilyn Manson
I changed my name when I was 13. I don’t know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself. – Leos Carax
I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks. – Katrina Kaif
Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy. – Marcus Samuelsson
In my career, I’ve really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity. – Lynn Collins
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
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. – Marshall McLuhan
I’ve always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn’t decide which one I liked best. – Lianne La Havas
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong
If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. – Morrissey