Christina Stead Quotes
When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
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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.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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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.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I studied drama.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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What is important is that the region, the people of Serbia, now draw a line across Milosevic's past and his life, which was a malign influence on the people of Serbia and the whole region.
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!
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When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
