Born Quotes - Page 38

• I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

  Demetri Martin

  Cake, World

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• Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

  Meghan Trainor

  Different, One Thing

  Song: Close Your Eyes, Album: Title

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• 'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Creative, Way, Ecstasy

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• A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  The Prince ch. 14 (1532) (translation by Angelo M. Codevilla)

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• I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

  Richard Wagner

  Race, Humanity, Enemy

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• All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  People, Creative, Helpless

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, President, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

  John Hagelin

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Play, People

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

  Betty Dodson

  College, Luck, Sorority

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.

  Eve Ensler

  Powerful, Real, Self Esteem

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there.

  Caroline Myss

  Family And Friends, Needs, Original Thought

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

  Etgar Keret

  Two, Six Months, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Baby, Color, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

  Mirah

  Community, World, Disappointing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

  Kola Boof

  Father, Islamic

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• I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

  Debra Dean

  Names, Sight, Acting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.

  Karen Dawn

  New York, Sunday, Animal

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

  Leigh Newman

  Baby, Brother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

  Boots Riley

  Daughter, Firsts, First Time

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.

  eL Seed

  Summer, Roots, Identity

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country - he should be labeled as: "Author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country."

  Sasa Stanisic

  Country, War, Book

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Past, Want, All Time

  Source: therumpus.net

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