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That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

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.

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'

The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

In violence, we forget who we are

Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

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

We are easily duped by those we love.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

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.

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.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

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.

Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.