Who We Are Quotes - Page 11

• If the popular thing to do is to say you have to ban flag burning, even if it ultimately means we're compromising a core principle of who we are as a republic, I don't think Donald Trump really thinks that that deeply into it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Thinking, Principles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  Arthur Jafa

  Spiritual, Simple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.

  Shakira

  Needs, Body, Be Confident

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Trump, Threat

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

  Judith Butler

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

  Demetria McKinney

  Song, Thinking, Gone

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.

  Jessica Chastain

  Mistake, Actresses, Young

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• We should fight [mass immigration], we should stop it, we should be proud of who we are and define what we are not.

  Geert Wilders

  Fighting, Proud, Immigration

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• For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping; that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or allies in the region.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, America, Allies

  Source: genius.com

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• I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Country, Military, War

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• I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Hurt, Husband

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

  Maya Angelou

  Encounters, May, Defeat

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Liars, Character, Ugly Things

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.149, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  Octavia Spencer

  People, Church, Alabama

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

  Kristi Jacobson

  Real, People, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all of our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Source: www.today.com

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• In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values, and for what we`ve done, which is to take down the Soviet Empire.

  Daniel Fried

  Views, West, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

  Max Lucado

  Impact, Issues, Culture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

  Jason Segel

  Jobs, Endure, Has Beens

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Identity, Wake Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

  Ella Baker

  History, Waiting, African American

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• Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Religious, Philosophical, Ideas

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• Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

  Glenn Beck

  Government, Grows, Loses

  "Beck’s Brutal Vision of the Perfect Society" by Mike Lux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2010.

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