Born Quotes - Page 37

• It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

  Warren Ballentine

  Country, Growing Up, Educational

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• I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

  Elena Ferrante

  Affluence, Attention, Conflict

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.

  Ginuwine

  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.

  George Pattison

  Elements, World, Way

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.

  Josh Earnest

  Mom, Daughter, Growing Up

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• Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.

  Zendaya

  Mom, Brother, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we don't have or know it.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Oneness, Understanding

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

  Baron Vaughn

  Two, People, Desert

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Father, California

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.

  Sia Furler

  Girl, Struggle, Fighting

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• No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Army, Creating, People

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Israel, Palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with hatred, they're taught hatred.

  Donald Trump

  Israel, People, Hatred

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I'd hate to see something like this get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, that the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada and he has a double passport.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Talking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• On my radio show Chris Christie came to the defense of Ted Cruz, noting that - I guess at a rally, that - one of those Iran rallies on Capitol Hill, I believe even Donald Trump, according to Christie, had acknowledged that, you know, Ted Cruz of course was eligible, and just because he was born in Canada.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Iran, Defense

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I said, You got to come home. I want my grandson to be president of the United States. He has to be born in the United States.Now, a child of a citizen of the United States born abroad or born wheresoever is a citizen if that's - he or she so chooses. So there's no doubt but that Ted Cruz is a citizen of the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Home, Son

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Naturalization Act of 1790, three years after the Constitution, said the children of citizens shall be considered natural born citizens. That's in 1790. Five years later, in 1795, they amended the Naturalization Act of 1795 and said the children of citizens, wherever born, are citizens is excluded the phrase "natural- born citizens" when they amended the act!

  Donald Trump

  Children, Years, Three

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Citizens, Next

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Class, Cities, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Moving, School, Kids

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• I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Mistake, Journey, Perfect

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• I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Believe, Everyday, Great Things

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• It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

  Jodie Foster

  Skills, People, Focus

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.

  Guy Maddin

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Parent, Generations

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Growing Up, Japan, Connections

  Source: www.elle.com

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