Born Quotes - Page 13

• Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

  Ken Robinson

  Creative, Curious, Humans

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• Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

  Nico Muhly

  Children, Church, Sound

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Teaching, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

  Brandy Norwood

  One Day, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.

  Aisha Tyler

  Order, California, And Love

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Mom, Crazy, Cutting

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Home, Empty Mind

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.

  Erick Chavarria

  Dream, Careers, Two

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• Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

  Gregg Allman

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, South

  "Success, Sorrow and Song: Gregg Allman’s Hard-Lived Life of Rock". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 14, 2012.

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• Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Home, Texas

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

  Angelique Kidjo

  East, West, Where You Are

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• I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

  Eli Roth

  Baseball, School, Boston

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

  Justin Smith

  Blessing, Years, Damn

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• I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Writing, Jamaica

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always wanted to travel. My mom was a geography queen, I knew the atlas, and I looked at her pictures of all her world travels because she traveled a lot before I was born, with my brother. I was always so jealous. I kind of chose a job that would be a way I could see the world without having to pay for it. I'm not going to be a flight attendant. I'm way too busy to be that.

  Le1f

  Mom, Brother, Queens

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean or for those who grew up in Africa.

  Harry Belafonte

  Growing Up, Thinking, America

  "Harry Belafonte Birthday Tribute". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 28, 2017.

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• Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

  Lake Bell

  Ideas, Different, Lucky

  "Lake Bell on ‘Man Up’, Simon Pegg, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.

  George S. Clason

  Children, Giving, Purpose

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Vineyards, Today, Fruit

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

  Bodhidharma

  Reality

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• The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.

  Jay Leno

  America, President, News

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• Critics say it's illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It's also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn't born in this country.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Country, Hair

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• I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

  Pele

  Football, Writing, Play

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• I was born with a nervous breakdown.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Nervous, Breakdown, Nervous Breakdown

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