Born Quotes - Page 39

• I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Ordinary, Actors, Dies

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

  Juan Enriquez

  Stars, Years, President

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Animal, Choices, Desire

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

  Larry Wilmore

  Drinking, Different, Fountain

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

  Sarah Silverman

  Baby, Thinking, Perfectly Good

  "Sarah Silverman: Turning Ignorance Into Comedy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 22, 2010.

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• I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, This Life

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dream, Niece, Years

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• It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

  Tyler Knott Gregson

  Hate, Miracle, Ordinary

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• Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Men, Discipline, Bravery

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• On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, ‘Life will never be the same.’ Because there had never been anyone like you ever in the world.

  Nancy Tillman

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Nancy Tillman (2006). “On the Night You Were Born”, p.3, Feiwel & Friends

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• Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

  Nancy Tillman

  Night, Heaven, Wonderful

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• A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Summer, Dirty, Autumn

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• Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

  Jilly Cooper

  Doubt, Diaries, Forget

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• If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

  John Assaraf

  Children, Thinking, Racism

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  Ted Cruz

  School, Talking, Years

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination.

  Ted Cruz

  Baby, Abortion, President

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Years, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Tears, Trying

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Jesus, Pay The Price

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

  John Shelby Spong

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.

  Ian MacKaye

  Moving, Kids, Cities

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.

  Vandana Shiva

  Daughter, Thinking, Essence

  Source: scottlondon.com

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