#identifies

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

#doing #everywhere #fun #himself #humorist

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#bandits #because #document #fact #further

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #america #complicated #identifies #identify

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#book #boy #composed #conceived #girl

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#conservative #elect #elected #ever #get

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. ↗

— Sting

#back #change #class #did #england

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #been #bitter #even #frequently

I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that. ↗

— Faith Evans

#about #always #away #been #certainly

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters