Born Quotes - Page 34

• Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

  James Whistler

  Want, Persons

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• Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

  David W Augsburger

  Chocolate, Doe, Sense Of Humor

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• We are born for cooperation

  Marcus Aurelius

  Cooperation

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (2013). “Meditations”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

  Heraclitus

  Opposites, Strife, Beneficial

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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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• 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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• 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 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 a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

  Alistair Begg

  Men, Giving, Spirit

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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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• 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 was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

  Jack Benny

  Long, Matter, Facts

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a girl, do we keep her?

  Greg Giraldo

  Girl, Kids, Boys

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• We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

  Robert Reich

  Love, Wise, Growing Up

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• You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kids, Redneck, Shooting

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• In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

  Benny Carter

  Honesty, Thinking, Play

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• If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Years, Horror Genre, Play

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• When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages.

  Laurie Holden

  Character, Self, Leader

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• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

  Joan Chen

  Order, Feet, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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