Who We Are Quotes - Page 9

• But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Diversity, Force

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother" by John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Mean, Order

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Special You, Identity

  "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Is it possible that there is something we don't fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which would change everything? Is it possible that there is something we don't understand about ourselves, and about who we are, the understanding of which would alter our lives forever for the better? Yes. The answer is yes.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Forever, Understanding, Answers

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel like from a very early age, we know who we are as individuals. I love when I see parents with their kids in these crazy outfits and they're like, "That's what they wanted to wear." Those small things are so important.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Crazy, Kids, Parent

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Dick Durbin

  Heart, Issues, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Should we have border security there? Yes. But the idea of the United States erecting a wall for the world to see makes a lie of everything we say about ourselves. It's a little bit like why the President [Barack Obama] and I feel so strongly about closing Guantanamo. It is inconsistent with who we are.

  Joe Biden

  Wall, Lying, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Joy, Ego

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• Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

  Bryan Kest

  Existence, Happenings, Strands

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• How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.

  Sharon Gannon

  Treats, Determine

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• Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.

  Jack Kornfield

  War, Hatred, World

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• Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

  Mallory Ortberg

  People, Celibacy

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

  Diana L. Eck

  America, Issues, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.

  Diana L. Eck

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I want to remind everyone what we're fighting for and who we are fighting for.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Want

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

  Dolly Parton

  Phony, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

  Brendon Burchard

  Live Life, Responsibility, Desire

  Brendon Burchard (2014). “The Motivation Manifesto”, p.27, Hay House, Inc

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• Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

  Jillian Hervey

  Strong, Complicated, Vulnerable

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I was thinking about all the things that the world had forgotten, it made me think about people who have actually really forgotten everything, and how much of our identity is wrapped up in those memories, and how much of our experience makes us who we are, and remembering those experiences makes us who we are.

  Sharon Cameron

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

  Ed Gordon

  Years, Perspective, Done

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

  Ian Bogost

  Personality, Habit, Capacity

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Democracy, Needs

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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