Who We Are Quotes - Page 12

• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Life Is, Longing, Painful

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Action

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• I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

  Mary J. Blige

  Uplifting, Trying, Fans

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• The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Cities, Forever

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

  Joyce Brothers

  Judging, Doe, World

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 70), 2004.

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Agriculture, Kentucky, Foundation

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• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Concern For Others

  First Radio Address following 9/11, delivered 15 September 2001

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• We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Media, Class

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• Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Doubt, Novelists, Cinema

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• I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Happiness, Moving, Acceptance

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• Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

  Puff Daddy

  Challenges, Lessons, Combs

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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• That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, Giving, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.

  Richard Eyre

  Pain, Grief, Character

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Smart, Thinking

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• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, People

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• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Birthday, Men, Views

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• I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Reflection, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

  Greg Kinnear

  Ideas, People, May

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, Blood, Rivers

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• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Judgmental, Imagine

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• Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Way, Helping

  "Third Screen". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Jobs, Book

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• We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

  Phil McGraw

  Truth, Believe, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Humanity, Way

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