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Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.

The thoughts we think and the words we speak creates our experiences.

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

We don't have to apologize for who we are

Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

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.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

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

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

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.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

We are who we are because of who we were

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning...

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.