Identities Quotes

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don`t find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it`s been a quest since then to define who we are.

I don`t want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn`t Rick Springfield.

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.

(In passing the Real ID Act, Congress did not intend to create a series of hard-to-comply-with rules but to encourage minimum standards for states to verify the identities of drivers license holders, said U.S. Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican.) We weren`t trying to carve out artificially high standards, ... This is not an unfunded mandate (to states).

Most people can`t tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can`t be related to other forms of historical poetry.

We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you`re not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

Often the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities than with promoting common values of nationhood. We should learn lessons from abroad, from the United States, where pride in the nation`s values is much more prevalent among minorities than here.

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

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.