I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one’s cultural identity has always been fascinating to me. – Simon Schama
The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality. – Victoria Beckham
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. – Tila Tequila
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and – over the years – have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego. – Walter Kohn
The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society’s obsession with identity, because I’m not sure that I really believe identity exists. – Tilda Swinton
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. – Stanley Hauerwas
‘Rhye’ clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn’t cast them in shadows. – Will Hermes
When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically ‘Texan’ identity, one distinct from being ‘American.’ – Shahzia Sikander
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
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. – Tullian Tchividjian
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. – Wayne Dyer
There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever. – Stanley A. McChrystal
Before doing ‘Midnight’s Children,’ I didn’t really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi. – Satya Bhabha
I guess I’ve always had a – not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game. – Sonny Bill Williams
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. – Tom Hooper
I act because it’s the one time I’m sure of my identity. There’s no doubt. It’s on paper. – Vin Diesel
I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I’ve been doing this since I was little, actually. – Tavi Gevinson
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. – Sarah Churchwell
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions. – Sarah Jones
I think I’ve been wishing for celebrity for so long that I’ve got used to being someone who’s petitioning the establishment for acceptance… my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don’t really know how to react now that petition has been granted. – Toby Young
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. – Tariq Ali
When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis – your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, ‘there goes Robards’ kid, Bacall’s kid.’ Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it’s there, it’s your foot. I’m not bothered anymore. I’m confident of my abilities. – Sam Robards
One thing you can’t intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the ‘search for identity’, and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. – Zadie Smith
When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it. – Trent Reznor
My identity is not based on performance; it’s based on something that’s pre-determined by someone else, and I don’t even understand what that is because I’m an African who came to America. – Toyin Odutola