Who We Are Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

  Rosie Perez

  People, Progress, Looks

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• What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Art, Moving, People

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• I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Tragedy, Tools

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

  Carla Gugino

  Sexuality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

  Sharon Creech

  Sibling, People, Grandparent

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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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• How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Mad, Doe, Treats

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• This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

  Artur Davis

  Sweet, Blessed, Dark

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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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• I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

  Emily Giffin

  Secret, Doe, Intrigued

  Interview with Evelyn Crowley, www.goodreads.com. July, 2012.

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• We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, Messages, Imperfect

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Thinking, Voice, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Disappointment, Philosophy

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Be what we make, and not who we are.

  Catherine Breillat

  Directors, Filmmaking

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• It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Brilliant, Radiohead, Feels

  "Sound and fury" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Next, Should

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• I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Passion, People, Teach

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Agents

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• In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

  Molly Parker

  Things In Life, People, Firsts

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• The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

  Wendell Pierce

  Culture, Roles, Form

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Evolve

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