Born Quotes
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I think I was born with a suitcase.
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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
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From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
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I think people are born for their destinies. Certain people are gifted to use their hands, or voices or minds. I’m fortunate enough to be such a person.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
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Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.
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No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.
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I was born to be blonde, maybe all of us are. If you gave it a try you would feel like a star.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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I was born five months after my parents were married, so I understand why mistakes have informed my world.
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A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
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I was not born to share the hate, but love.
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In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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I was born near a station. The first things that I saw in my life were the moving locomotives and trains, and I drew them as a three-year-old. Perhaps it is because of this that observations of movement are my impetus for my inspiration to create. Out of this I receive a creative experience of life, which is the source of creativity.
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It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
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If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.
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I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's wife, who is Hispanic. She was born in America but her parents are from Honduras. She speaks Spanish. She knows the culture. But most black people, we were robbed of that. We don't know our heritage.
