William S. Burroughs Quotes

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

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• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Star
  • Born
  • First

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Father
  • Blue
  • Born

• Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Born
  • Mozart
  • Parker

• I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Family
  • Think
  • Born

• Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Born

• 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
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Born
  • Two
  • I Was Born

• I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Said
  • Born

• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Matter
  • Place
  • Born

• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Born
  • Joining
  • Old-fashioned

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Family
  • Born

• It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Law
  • Child

• I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Think
  • Style
  • Training

• We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • Great
  • Defense
  • Prepared

• One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Loves

• In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Sophisticated
  • Cotton

• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Helping
  • Born