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• I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

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• I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Fall, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses.

  Deborah Smith

  Brother, House, Toronto

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Mean, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.

  Johnny Marr

  Idols, Long, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

  Michael Gira

  Festivals, Feels, Entertainers

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Art, Moving, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

  Will Arnett

  Fun, Character, Mean

  "Will Arnett Is Ready to Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.

  Terry Gross

  Children, Kids, Knowing

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• I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Leader, Forgiving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

  Laura Mullen

  Mother, Discovery, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Church, Firsts

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Real, School, Leaving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.

  Pedro Winter

  Thinking, Ibiza, Drug

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Winter

  Generations, Culture, Rebellion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they are very different. I think they come off very differently. I think they come off, I don't know if it's masculine or outward, extroverted than introverted. I didn't know. It's just been a process.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

  Kelly Reichardt

  Trying, Beef, Dukes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

  Jack Lemmon

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Garden

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandmother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Football, Boys, Play

  "How Lizzy Caplan 'Master'ed Her Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 27, 2013.

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• The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

  Peter Diamandis

  Men, Class, Minorities

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Generations

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.

  Antonio Damasio

  Firsts, Events, Stories

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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