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“'ve always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but afraid to emulate. Impostor narratives are exactly that. When they end in disaster, as Clark's did, or as Gatsby's did, we can congratulate ourselves for our own wisdom. We can also experience, safely, at no cost, the terrible thrill of radical self-invention, of trading who we are for who we might be.”

Persons Ends Self Stories Might Journey Terrible Cost Disaster Invention Defined Radical Narrative Who We Are Thrill Trading Tempted Emulate Alluring

Author:Walter Kirn

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Wish Talking Advice Awful Being Yourself Who We Are Static Just Be Yourself Unchanging

Author:Mary J. Miller

“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.”

People Thinking Way Character Chance Wonder Our Lives Offers Ordinary Wake Up Extraordinary Disappear Granted Who We Are Backdrop Taking Things For Granted

Author:Chris Abani

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Mean Ends Remember Attention Happened Pay Attention Who We Are Gaps Interaction Remember You Remembers You

Author:Roy Kesey

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

Character School Speak Dialogue Who We Are

Author:Leigh Newman

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

Ifs Facts Remember Who We Are What If Attempting

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“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.”

Thinking Way Different Play Stories Realizing Roles Lovers Drama Members Draws Various Partners Our Family Who We Are Fascinated Navigate Dynamics

Author:Christopher Castellani

“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.”

People Self Form Hate Black Who We Are Black People Inferiors Identifying Self Hate

Author:Nate Parker

“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.”

“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.”

Believe Bigs Spirituality I Believe Creative Genius Economics Believer Who We Are Creative Genius

Author:Eric Weiner

“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.”

People Needs Should Body Jobs Christ Church Struggle Offers News Pursue Who We Are Reach Out Good News Wholeheartedly Body Of Christ

Author:Alan Chambers

“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.”

People Knows Way Mean Real Country Stories Fiction Class Military Example Identity Drama Exciting Science Fiction Who We Are Cop Exploring Real You Good Science Fiction Stories

Author:Ethan Hawke

“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.”

Want Looks Country Grows Growing Up Racism Daughter Who We Are My Daughter Sexism Homophobia Jingoism

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“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.”

Mind Stills Reason Fantasy Accepted Great Things Obsessed Who We Are Jane Austen

Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“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.”

Made Different Belief Unique Supposed To Be Who We Are

Author:Atticus Shaffer

“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.”

Next Sides Judging Who We Are Next Time Humiliation Airports Screening

Author:Debbie Almontaser

“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.”

Ifs Pride Proud Tradition Who We Are Customs Latino Venezuelans

Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“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.”

Thinking Knows Needs Believe Speak Willing West Who We Are Speaks Out Counterparts Muslim Women Reciprocate

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“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.”

People Ideas Faces Dangerous Threat Who We Are Good Ideas

Author:Michael Scheuer

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

World Has Beens Made Stories Past Who We Are

Author:Mat McNerney

“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.”

Way Mean Reason Done Happens Race Study Commitment Variety Who We Are New Ways Integrated

Author:Michael Emerson

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Should Stuff Focus My Way Who We Are

Author:Conor McGregor

“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.”

People Way Want Years May Ideas Different Differences Huge Years Ago Narrative Who We Are Constructs Different Ideas

Author:Antonio Damasio

“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.”

Made Pieces Broken Mortals Who We Are

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“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.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“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?”

Doe Understanding Logic Victim Who We Are Echoes Coast Turkeys Attacking Baghdad Ivory Mali Attacking Us

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

Force Diversity Commitment Who We Are Abandon

Author:Ted Cruz

“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.”

People Want Mean Body Desire Humanity Order Fall Christianity Sky Limits Who We Are Mutual Rescue Want U Interdependence Mutual Respect

Author:John Shelby Spong

“In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

“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.”

Understanding Answers Forever Our Lives Who We Are

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“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.”

Knows Feels Important Kids Age Wanted Individual Parent Crazy Who We Are Small Things Outfits

Author:Tyler Blackburn

“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.”

Heart Has Beens Nations Justice Issues Vote Critical Who We Are Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Dick Durbin

“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.”

“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.”

States Stories Joy Memories Emotion Awareness Source Ego Stuck Who We Are Dependent Fountain Swirls Source Of Happiness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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.”

Existence Happenings Who We Are Strands

Author:Bryan Kest

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

Treats Determine Who We Are

Author:Sharon Gannon

“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.”

World War Spirit Born Consciousness Trouble Hatred Difficulty Who We Are Sickness

Author:Jack Kornfield

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

People Who We Are Celibacy

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“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.”

Thinking Made Country Bits Decision Break Wonderful Prison Who We Are Prison Break

Author:Rupert Murdoch

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

Has Beens America Issues Identity Crisis Who We Are Ongoing Identity Crisis

Author:Diana L. Eck

“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.”

People Stills Country Christian America Religious Ought Diversity Built Bases Constitution Conviction Plenty Who We Are Etc Flourishing Framed Religious Diversity

Author:Diana L. Eck

“We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.”

Ifs Who We Are Phony

Author:Dolly Parton

“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.”

People World Way Needs Country Done Government Cutting Trump Solutions Size Around The World Who We Are Systems Of Government

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

Want Needs Persons Desire Social Responsibility Type Pressure Legacy Impulse Live Life Who We Are Above And Beyond Social Pressure

Book:The Motivation Manifesto

Source: The Motivation Manifesto

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

Strong Complicated Vulnerable Who We Are Complicated Things

Author:Jillian Hervey

“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.”

People Thinking World Made Remember Memories Identity Forgotten Who We Are

Author:Sharon Cameron

“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.”

Knows Years Done Shows Audience Perspective Decades Magazines Who We Are

Author:Ed Gordon

“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.”

Personality Habit Capacity Who We Are Traits Personality Traits

Author:Ian Bogost

“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.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Looks Together Differences Planets Benefits Who We Are

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

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