Who We Are Quotes - Page 8

• I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.

  Mary J. Miller

  Being Yourself, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

  Chris Abani

  Character, Thinking, People

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.

  Roy Kesey

  Mean, Thinking, Remember You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

  Leigh Newman

  School, Character, Speak

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

  Lee L Jampolsky

  What If, Facts, Remember

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.

  Christopher Castellani

  Drama, Thinking, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

  Nate Parker

  Hate, Self, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.

  Mary Burke

  Mom, Dad, Believe

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

  Eric Weiner

  Believe, Creative, Genius

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• This is the church's job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling, who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life. That's good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.

  Alan Chambers

  Jobs, Struggle, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.

  Ethan Hawke

  Country, Military, Real

  "Ethan Hawke talks 'Regression'". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Country, Growing Up

  "Clinton Family Takes On Iowa". www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Mind, Fantasy, Reason

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Unique, Different, Belief

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The next time you see a Muslim or Sikh at the airport, don't judge us - sympathize with us. Understand our humiliation every time we're pulled to the side for additional screenings simply because of who we are.

  Debbie Almontaser

  Airports, Judging, Next

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

  Juan Luis Guerra

  Pride, Proud, Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Believe, Thinking, Speaks Out

  Source: content.time.com

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• And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

  Michael Scheuer

  Ideas, People, Faces

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

  Mat McNerney

  Past, Stories, World

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• We've done a lot of studies to see when they do happen, why, and I mean there's a variety of reasons. But one, it starts with a commitment where they decide this is going to be who we are. Maybe it's out of their faith, a new way of looking at their faith, that we must be integrated across race.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Commitment, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

  Conor McGregor

  Thinking, Focus, Want

  Source: hypebeast.com

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• But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

  Antonio Damasio

  Ideas, Differences, Years

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Broken, Pieces, Made

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• I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. And my hope is that when they finish reading the book, that they will come away with a renewed sense of pride in our culture and in who we are. We get a lot of strength from that [culture and identity] and we should be proud of it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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• When Manuel Valls says there's nothing to understand because "understanding is justifying," he echoes back to Georges W Bush's logic in 2001. When François Hollande says "they are attacking us because of who we are," what does it say about victims in Mali, Baghdad, Ivory Coast or Turkey?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Ivory, Echoes, Turkeys

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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