Born Quotes
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
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What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.
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“From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.”
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Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
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Rock 'n roll was born in the South. It's like saying rock-rock.
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It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.
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I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
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You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night.
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I was never born, I didnt die.
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God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
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You were born original don't die a copy.
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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
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I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.
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In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
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[In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.
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Men are born, and then they're formed.
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Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
