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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
Identity

"I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world."

Men Song Identity
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Chaz Bono Author, Activist, Musician
Identity

"Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had."

Strong Acting Identity
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Cody Wilson Activist, Entrepreneur
Identity

"I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it."

White Identity Hot
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Blake Judd Musician
Identity

"Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies."

Mean Evil Identity
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Alex Winston Singer-Songwriter
Identity

"I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music."

Creative Singing Identity
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Identity

"That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it."

Identity Existence
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Wednesday Martin Author, Sociologist
Identity

"If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe."

Trying Identity Conformity
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Identity

"My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting."

Heart Parent Identity
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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
Identity

"I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good."

World Identity Tests
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Tamer El Said Filmmaker
Identity

"Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place where you see the bigger picture of the city's social fabric. It's also a place where you see all the contradictions of having all these layers, classes, and differences at the same time. And this is also where they clash, and where they negotiate. They negotiate their demands, their tastes, the lifestyles they want to have. So it's a very interesting space. I think that Downtown has maintained that identity before, during, and after the revolution."

Thinking Interesting Identity
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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
Identity

"That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists."

Memories Identity Odds
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Ted Leo Musician
Identity

"The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it."

Desire Loss Identity
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Ted Leo Musician
Identity

"When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise."

Trying Identity Obscure
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