Who We Are Quotes - Page 26

• People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  People, Awful, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mean, Essence, Answers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mean, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  War, People, Important

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

  Jan Phillips

  Way, Autobiography

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• If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

  Wallace Stegner

  Knows, Ifs

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• Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

  Aleister Crowley

  Remember, Reincarnation, Increase

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship.

  Harriet Lerner

  Emotional, Issues, Important

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Identity, Impossible, True Happiness

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• Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

  David Weinberger

  Messages, Pieces, Individual

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• We will be whatever they need us to be. Call us emo's, liars, and cheaters...tell people how awful we are and how little talent we have...do whatever it takes to make themselves feel better because at the end of the day, we are strong, we can take it. We don't need their approval to justify our lives. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us and they can try like hell to put out that flame but as long as in our minds we know who we are meant to be, they don't stand a chance.

  Andy Biersack

  Strong, Emo, Liars

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• Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Want, Matter, Privacy

  Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

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• We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

  James Heckman

  Giving, Way, Possibility

  "It Pays to Invest in Early Education Says a Nobel Economist Who Boosts Kids’ IQ". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. February 22, 2013.

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• Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Promise, Identity

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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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• The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

  Bill Vaughan

  Healing, Health, Simple

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• We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

  Meryl Streep

  Knowing, Groups, Sometimes

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• Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Careers, Personality, Achievement

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• This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

  Barack Obama

  War, Mean, Law

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• We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Independent, Tools, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Doe, Guides

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

  Michael Patrick King

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

  Faith Popcorn

  America, United States, Popcorn

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby

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