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• No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.

  Liam Gillick

  Talking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.

  Elizabeth Neel

  New York, Block, Fall

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.

  Lizzo

  Father, Names, Houston

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Children, Giving, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

  Rob James-Collier

  Drama, Proud, Facts

  "'Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier On His Tragic Hero Thomas Barrow, Dancing With Dame Maggie Smith And Waiting For The Next Role". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 18, 2015.

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• I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.

  Diane Kruger

  Cities, Germany, Actors

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Years

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

  Michael Pena

  Dad, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

  Michael Pena

  Skills, Cuffs, Someday

  Source: collider.com

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• Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Play, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

  Mark Steyn

  Responsibility, Government, Defense

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.51, Regnery Publishing

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• I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Black, Belts

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• I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie.' And I always say, 'How OLD are you?'

  Campbell Scott

  Hair, People, Twenties

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Soul, Sunrise

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• I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

  Helen Thomas

  Privilege, Should, Reporters

  "'What Else Should a Reporter BE' But a Liberal?" by Warner Todd Huston, www.newsbusters.org. January 21, 200.

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• Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Believe, Men, Expression

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Philosophy, People, Leader

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• The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Prayer, Children, Lying

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• When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

  William Hendriksen

  Heart, Humility, Grace

  William Hendriksen (1953). “New Testament Commentary: Philippians”

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• Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Eye, Universe

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.123, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Looks, Rooms, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2009

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• Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Joy, Compass, Knows

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• If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

  Steven J Lawson

  Ifs, Dies

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• You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Alive

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