Who We Are Quotes - Page 13

• Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Drug, Abuse

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

  Christina Ricci

  Unique, People, Quality

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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  Alan Rickman

  Destiny, Government, People

  "Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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• You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

  Mitt Romney

  Europe, White, House

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

  Mitt Romney

  Why Not, Certain, Ifs

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• I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Challenges, Immigration

  "Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Our lives teach us who we are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Character, Human Nature, Teach

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

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• Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.'

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Men, Hair, Long

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• For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

  Alex Steffen

  Compassion, People, Community

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, Horizon, Lasts

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• I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

  Jean Vanier

  Identity, Want, Life Is

  Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Lying, Order

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Home, Reflection

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

  Eddie Vedder

  Vision, Sound, Band

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Agendas, Republic, Progressive

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• A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

  Betty White

  Mother, Thinking, Talking

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

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• You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

  Carnie Wilson

  Struggle, Years, Sometimes

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• When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Missing, Defined

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• Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Heart, Body

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• Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Stranger, Hiding

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• We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

  Alex Haley

  Loneliness, Adoption, Vacuums

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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