Sophocles Quotes
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.Sophocles
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall -
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
Idina Menzel -
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
Sally Field -
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
Damien Chazelle
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
Samuel Foote -
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp -
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
Walter Annenberg -
It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
Camila Alves -
I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
Natalia Kills
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
Bear Grylls -
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Vidal Sassoon -
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
Nathan Lane -
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Ralph Baer -
My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
Dane Cook
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde -
He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
Bentley Little -
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
Dan Gable -
It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.
Phil Daniels -
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Thomas Sowell -
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
Sophocles