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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Identity

"If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity."

Self Esteem Identity Others Opinions
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Betty Buckley Actress and Singer
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"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."

Identity Feminist Feminism
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Samuel Ruiz Bishop
Identity

"The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith."

Understanding Identity Western Culture
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Russell Howard Comedian, Actor
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"She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!"."

Funny Humor Identity
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here."

People Civilization Identity
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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."

Writing Communication Identity
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened."

Pain Motivational Identity
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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Imagination Identity Wonderland
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
Identity

"You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me."

World Fiction Identity
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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons."

War Identity Weapons
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