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身份
Identity
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
我们今天的成就不过是我们昨天思想的总和。今天是昨天的思想带给你的今天，明天是今天的思想带给你的明天。
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
当你放弃国家权力时，你就放弃了自己的身份，这种想法毫无用处。不，实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做，你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
我丈夫有很强的认同感，在他的生活中很成功。感谢上帝。我没办法控制他。如果我觉得可以，我也不会和他结婚。我很容易把我的商业个性带回家。但他强迫我做合伙人而不是老板。
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
我把自己的声音和能力看作是上天赐予我的礼物。我觉得我甚至不能为此邀功，但它在我的生活中如此重要。这就是我的生活。这是我的身份，这是一切。它给了我很大的快乐和使命感——我无法想象没有它的生活。
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
一种身份似乎是通过一个人面对和使用他的经验的方式获得的。
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
一首无名的歌就像一个无名的孩子，它没有身份。
To create myself from nothing.
从无到有创造自己。
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.
我父母教给我的一件事是，永远不要让别人定义我，我也会永远感激这份礼物。
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
当你发现，不是你能集中精力做什么，而是你不能集中精力做什么时，你就有了自己的身份。