Born Quotes - Page 37

• Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

  Walt Whitman

  Lucky, Leaves Of Grass, Knows

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 7

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• Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.

  Stephen Curry

  Passion, Relentless

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• You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Want

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• For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

  Petrarch

  Stars, Desire, Body

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• Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.

  Patton Oswalt

  Growing Up, Kids, People

  "Patton Oswalt on his most memorable roles and giving life advice to Dane Cook". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

  Jack Paar

  Crazy, Kids, Blood

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• It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

  Andrew Sullivan

  America, Tragedy, Resistance

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• I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Mean, White, People

  "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.

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• There's a seeker born every minute.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Minutes, Seekers

  Robert Anton Wilson (1995). “Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death”, New Falcon Publications

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• I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

  Isadora Duncan

  Diversity, Unity, Movement

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• I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

  James Rosenquist

  Artist, Doe, Ability

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• I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

  Carolina Kostner

  Believe, Hard Work, Passion

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Baby, Reading

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• I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Trying, Research

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• When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

  Erin Wasson

  Girl, Curly Hair, Who I Am

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pride, Demon, Hours

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.642, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• ...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Stories, World, Want

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• The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

  Billy Corgan

  Trying, Different, Way

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

  J. D. McClatchy

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

  Will Durant

  Enemy, Freedom And Equality

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• We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorant, Curiosity, Able

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• I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Guarantees, Taught

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• We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Believe, Successful

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• Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Fit

  "Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

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