Born Quotes - Page 13

• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Revenge, Violence

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

  Lord Byron

  Track, Guilt, Forfeit

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

  Unknown

  Bible, Jesus, Men

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• I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

  Seth

  Believe, Creativity, Play

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

  John Locke

  Exercise, Skills, Giving

  John Locke (1812). “Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common-place-book”, p.195

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• The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

  Jack London

  Life, Father, Opportunity

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

  John Wesley

  Blessed, Believe, Men

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The doctrine of original sin, and tracts on various subjects of polemical divinity”, p.532

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• Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

  George Chapman

  Perfect, Birth, Perfect Happiness

  1611 The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets,'Epistle Dedicatory'.

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• A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.

  Robert Reed

  Loss, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

  David Coleman

  Football, Villa, Commentators

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Horror Genre, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think leaders are born. Well, they're born; everybody's born, but I think leadership can be enhanced, they can be developed, and I think that it's important we do that, particularly with our youngsters.

  Pat Williams

  Thinking, Leader, Important

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

  David Brooks

  Ties, Shields, Hips

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we thought it would be really interesting if they could look at each other every other night and play each other's roles.

  Danny Boyle

  Eye, Night, Views

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Comedian, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Actors, Looking For Work

  "INTERVIEW: Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon on In the Valley of Elah". www.movieweb.com. September 10, 2007.

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• I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

  Alex Kozinski

  Speak, Communism, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

  Steven Conrad

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Men, Class

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Thinking, Land

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Stars, Astonishment, Skeptical

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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