Who We Are Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Art, Struggle, Men

  Source: deadline.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end.

  Christian Slater

  Wall, Artist, Obvious Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

  Christian Slater

  Matter, Window, Rich

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.

  Judith Butler

  Gay, Thinking, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, People, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

  Diane Kochilas

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.

  Sho Baraka

  Justice, Joy, Understanding

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

  Tara Brach

  Attachment, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Textbooks, Augustine, Our Relationship

  Source: inters.org

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