Who We Are Quotes - Page 23

• We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, Messages, Imperfect

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Thinking, Voice, Mind

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

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• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come 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

  Art, Disappointment, Philosophy

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

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• Be what we make, and not who we are.

  Catherine Breillat

  Directors, Filmmaking

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• It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Brilliant, Radiohead, Feels

  "Sound and fury" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Next, Should

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• I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Passion, People, Teach

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Agents

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• In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

  Molly Parker

  Things In Life, People, Firsts

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• The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

  Wendell Pierce

  Culture, Roles, Form

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Evolve

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• In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Together, Theatre, Where We Come

  "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Essence, Perception

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• Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

  Todd Tiahrt

  War, Believe, Trying

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• My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

  Amy Waldman

  Children, Two, Attention

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

  Shayne Ward

  Writing, People, Want

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• I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

  Sheryl Lee

  Struggle, Dark, Two

  Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998.

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• Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  Paul Auster

  Taken, Eye, Thinking

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• We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

  Bobby Orr

  Believe, Athlete, Responsibility

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• In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Character, Artist

  Siri Hustvedt (2006). “Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting”, p.19, Princeton Architectural Press

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• We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

  Christine Downing

  Needs, Might, Myth

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• This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

  Alice Gardner

  Spiritual, Ideas, Soul

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• Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

  David Shi

  Contentment, Purpose, Moral

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• Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Office, Empowering, May

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• I am young in my energy because I really still believe that we can share who we are, and we can wipe off on each other. I see this huge tapestry when we're born, and this red blob that's your soul or your heart.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.pbs.org

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