Edwin Arnold Quotes
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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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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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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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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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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.
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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 wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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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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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.
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Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.