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• I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Country, Mirrors, Rights

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

  Bathsua Makin

  Men, Law, People

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• Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Country, Night, Men

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.428, GENERAL PRESS

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• Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

  Blaine Hogan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Ifs

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• The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow! No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

  John R. Rice

  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• I know as well as thee that I am no poet born
  It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn
  If I make verses-'tis in spite
  Of nature and my stars I write.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Stars, Writing, Poet

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Doe, Growing

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• Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Men, Unions

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• Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Winning, Men, Expression

  "Fictional character: Stalker". "Stalker", May 1979.

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• New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

  Barbra Streisand

  New York, Stars, Critics

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• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Black, Jerk

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• Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

  Avery Johnson

  Opportunity, Challenges, Lasts

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• As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.

  Eric Garcetti

  Retirement, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

  Judy Garland

  Garden, White, House

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• Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Christian, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Memories, People, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Age, Acting, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Kids, Moon, Numbers

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

  Christian Boltanski

  Optimistic, People, World

  "To die is very strange". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Flair

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Feminist, Environment, Biology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

  Bassam Tibi

  Children, Taken, Islamic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

  Beth Orton

  Pigs, Cities, London

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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