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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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• I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Parks, Hospitals

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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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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• Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  Brittany Murphy

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Likes And Dislikes, Mind, Chariots

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Ideas, Lasts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

  Tertullian

  Differences, Prevention, Birth

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• It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Prayer, Men, Leader

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Generosity, Trying

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.25, Oxford University Press

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• We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Live Life, Names, Culture

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• We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

  Corliss Lamont

  Fate, Doe, Decree

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• The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.

  Chapman Cohen

  Christian, People, Heaven

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Years, Age

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• Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Children, Knowing

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Spiritual, Church, Temples

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• If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Lost, Bethlehem

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• I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Children, Humanity, Attention

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• Between urine and filth we are born.

  Saint Augustine

  Filth

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• What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

  Klaus Barbie

  Regret, Would Be, Nazi

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• Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person.

  John Roderick

  Jobs, Knowing, Parent

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• It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

  Lord Dunsany

  Hours, Insects

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories”, p.9, Booklassic

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• The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

  Erich Fromm

  Important, Development, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

  Matisyahu

  Meaningful, Song, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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