Who We Are Quotes - Page 26

• I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

  Michael Moore

  Hate, America, Shooting

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• Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

  Scott Walker

  Moving, America, People

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• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

  Terry Jones

  Thinking, Order, Voice

  "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth can be found by recognizing what our parents accomplished and where they left off. By reconciling what they gave us with what they left us to resolve, we can get a clear picture of who we are and what we are meant to do.

  James Redfield

  Two, Parent, Next Steps

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• Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Regret, Angel, Second Chance

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human condition, who we are, what we want, how we communicate to one another and this is also an exploration of a long-term relationship and what happens in it. There's human sexuality and all those kinds of things, so that helps - it all helps. You realise that I'm not a Playboy bunny.

  Julianne Moore

  Long, Atoms, Bunnies

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

  Alanis Morissette

  War, Compassion, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

  Julie Taymor

  Darkness, Forget, Tales

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

  Sam Keen

  Culture, Good Family, Mythology

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

  David McCullough

  Important, Way, Feels

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

  David McCullough

  Suffering, Stories, Should

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

  Nick Flynn

  Events, Stories, Matter

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• President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

  Denis McDonough

  Religious, Rights, Government

  Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.

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• Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

  Kristin Hannah

  Memories, Lasts, Ends

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “Fly Away”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feelings, Matter

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.29, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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  Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

  Angelina Jolie

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• Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

  George O. Wood

  Preaching, Persecution

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• Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scars—does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.

  Jonathan Martin

  Jesus, Profound, Suffering

  Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Dream, Honesty, Believe

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Darkness, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Fullness

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.4, Random House

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• We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

  Laverne Cox

  Gender, Born

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• Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

  Anthony Marra

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• Debt has become a part of who we are.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Debt, Finance

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