Identification Quotes

My face is my passport.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.

You'll never find a candidate that you can identify 100 percent with unless you become one yourself.

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

I'm not a criminal but I've been fingerprinted like a criminal.

Because I'm a nobody, surely it's an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.