Born Quotes
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
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To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
Sophocles
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We are born as psychotics, we die as neurotics, we merely try to stay alive in between - as perverts. Welcome to the world of Lacanian phenomenology.
Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
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Nothing is born, nothing dies.
Antoine Lavoisier
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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
William Shakespeare
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I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
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Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
Margaret Millar
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We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Marianne Williamson
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
Caroline Norton
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A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
Emily Barton
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
Lao Tzu
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
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I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
Val Kilmer
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We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet. Who can ever understand exactly why or how it comes down as it does? The bottom line is, here we are. Whatever, wherever we are, this is what we've got. It's up to us whether we do it as easy time or hard time.
Bo Lozoff
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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
Lao Tzu
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As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
Adam Nicolson
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I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.
Jill Soloway
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I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.
Geraldine Chaplin
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People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
Georgette Leblanc
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I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.
Kristen Stewart