Where You Come Quotes - Page 2

• It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

  Gloria Estefan

  Race, Progress, Overcoming

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

  Laozi

  Death, Kings, Grandmother

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• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Views, Matter, Facts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

  Tom Hiddleston

  Class System, Fans, Ugly

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• There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

  Garrison Keillor

  Country, Nice, Moving

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• But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Destiny

  Barack Obama's back-to-school speech at Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Essence

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• Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

  Dennis Covington

  Suicide, Knowing, One Thing

  Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Tragedy, Triumph

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.

  Michael Oher

  Teacher, Mistake, Ideas

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• It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doe, Matter, Path

  Neil Gaiman (2014). “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.

  Jeremy Piven

  Jobs, Growing Up, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.

  Hamid Drake

  Care, Guessing, Feels

  Source: the-attic.net

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• I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

  Kid Rock

  Thinking, Proud, I've Learned

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2013

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• The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Race, Measurement

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  Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Passion, Successful

  "Stephen Curry Talks About His Christian Faith in MVP Acceptance Speech" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. May 6, 2015.

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• I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

  DeMarcus Ware

  Kids, Opportunity, Needs

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• I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sports, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

  Mark Krikorian

  Country, Ease, Information

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• I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy.' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it.

  Dylan Moran

  Morning, Two, Apples

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• Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

  Henning Mankell

  Dream, Expression, Clothes

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 28, 2012

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• We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, America, Should Have

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• Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, World

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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