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• I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

  Charley Pride

  Believe, Eye, People

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• I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Running, Home

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• I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.

  Bess Truman

  Home, Delaware, Streets

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• I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Names, Broken

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• I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

  Jamie Farr

  Firsts

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

  Anthony de Mello

  Fate, Destiny, Responsible

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.35, Image

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• I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Thinking, Roots

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• America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

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• I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

  John C. Reilly

  Hollywood, Actors, Stuff

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• The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Imagination, Mind

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Darkness is dawn not yet born.

  Khalil Gibran

  Darkness, Dawn

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, Looks, Born Again

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Sacred Self: Making the Decision to Be Free”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Heart, Hatred

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• When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart

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• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Sacrifice, Broken

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• When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Mother, Divorce

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• It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?

  George Carlin

  Pussy, Saws, Firsts

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

  Pearl Cleage

  Buddhist, Believe, Privacy

  Pearl Cleage (2009). “I Wish I Had a Red Dress”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Morning, Queens, Cities

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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• I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

  Neil Kinnock

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• Three has always been tougher than Two. Think of any of your famous threesomes. The Three Stooges? Look at the anger there. My bet is that before Curly was born, Moe and Larry could play together for hours without even a single poke in the eye. Huey, Dewey, and Louie? Donald Duck never had a moment's peace. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? I rest my case.

  Paul Reiser

  Eye, Thinking, Play

  Paul Reiser (2012). “Babyhood”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Wish, Way, Action

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• The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Perspective, Different

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• I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Believe

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• I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

  Demetri Martin

  Jumping, Bungee, Closest

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