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I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.
Shari Sebbens
People
Try
Down
Aboriginal
Never
Like
Supposed
Look
Bow
Identity
Because
Been
Question
Fit
Australian
Mould
Who
I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.
Shepard Fairey
Politics
People
Think
Intimidated
Dead
Dead End
Identity
End
Going
I can't give up my own identity.
Shirley MacLaine
Own
Give
My Own
Identity
Up
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
Sia
You
People
Own
Difficult
Way
Telling
Find
Perceiving
Identity
Lot
Certain
Your
Certain Way
'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.
Sid Sriram
Will
Thought
Indian
Entropy
California
Identity
Up
Grew
Processes
Kaleidoscope
Who
I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.
Simon Schama
You
Memory
Sense
Community
Jews
Otherwise
Strictly
Would
Would-Be
Know
Identity
Misunderstood
Persecution
American
Commit
Order
Want
Dose
Fiercely
Really
Your
Even
Orthodox
Need
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
Food
Me
Big
Sense
Monthly
Column
Identity
Does
Always
Am
Been
Cultural
Cook
Used
Cookery
Connecting
Fascinating
Whole
Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.
Soni Razdan
City
Delhi
Like
Look
Identity
Does
Mumbai
I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.
Sonny Bill Williams
Myself
Game
Thought
Big
Guess
Had
Identity
Always
Big Star
Really
Star
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.
Sophie Hunger
Today
Conflict
School
Invention
Finished
Took
Everything
Way
Pleasure
Find
Some
Invented
Point
Shape
Had
True
Nobody
Identity
Accepting
Been
Exists
Realised
Really
Initially
Suddenly
Fundamental
Thing
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
Stacey Abrams
Legal
Progress
Opportunity
Awareness
Has-Been
Identity
How
Been
Deny
Sustainable
Used
Grounded
Basis
There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.
Stanley A. McChrystal
You
Army
Gone
Only
Identity
Forever
Which
Serve
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
Stanley Crouch
You
Class
Country
Those
Sexual
Identity
Aesthetic
Same
Region
Ethnic
Aspects
Your
I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.
Steph McGovern
News
People
Key
Brilliant
Too
Changing
Way
Had
Identity
Accent
Because
Said
Get
Northern
Producer
Who
I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big shift because I sort of had all these friends on dance squad, and when I started to do theater, my whole identity shifted.
Stephanie Beatriz
School
Decision
Dance
Big
Year
High
Follow
High School
Drill
Had
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Identity
Make
Sort
Because
Doing
Shift
Shifted
Texas
Squad
Friends
Which
Theater
Gonna
Used
Team
Whole
Thing
Started
We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.
Stephanie Savage
Love
Acceptance
About
Identity
Because
Love Stories
Stories
Universal
Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.
Stephen Chbosky
Life
Music
Me
Emotions
My Life
Kid
Has-Been
Find
Vital
Touch
Had
Part
Since
Know
Identity
Been
Person
Get
Artist
Helped
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
Stephen Lang
Work
Time
You
Yourself
Enough
Possessed
Possession
Something
Allow
Open
Environment
Identity
Expense
Anyone
Form
Happen
Then
Creating
Your
Sanity
Each
Each Time
Play
There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.
Stephen Miller
Life
Beautiful
Together
People
Big
Walks
Unity
About
Something
Idea
Bound
Identity
Big Idea
American
Different
American Identity
American Interests
Really
Interests
Who
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
Steve-O
Me
Entertainment
Thought
First
Out
Kind
Freaked
Entertainment Industry
Some
Point
Through
Never
Contemplated
Identity
Industry
Occurred
Existence
Cease
Any
Going
After
Ascendant
Then
Career
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.
Steven Sater
Music
Myself
Local
Saw
Say
Would
Something
Had
Highly
Ideas
Identity
Make
Sound
Hip-Hop
Came
Were
End
Where
Influenced
Wanted
Who
Techno
Apply
Started
National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.
Subramanian Swamy
National
Thinking
Way
Identity
Does
National Identity
Figure
Every baby step India takes in achieving anything towards its betterment enhances my identity and personality because I love my country.
Sushmita Sen
Love
Personality
Country
Every
Baby
India
Step
Takes
Betterment
Towards
Identity
Because
Achieving
Anything
Enhances
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mind
College
Writer
Identity
Chief
When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
Tamron Hall
Politics
Identity
Came
Place
Growing
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
Independence
Own
Nationalism
Weakness
Only
Lay
Could
Factor
Identity
Traditional
Scottish
Inability
Grasp
March
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