Born Quotes
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To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
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There's nothing I can do about looking short. I'm born this way. And my face is on the long side so I look even shorter on screen. It's not an issue that can be solved by inserting extra heels into my shoes.
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The portrait in his, and he's walking out of the house he was born in with blood on his hands and his head held high and his mother's face on his back, his own inalienable albatross, for all the world to see.
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Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
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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 believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
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I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
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Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
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It was defiance born of a lack of any hope.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.
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When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
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The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
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The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
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I think I was born with a suitcase.
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The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.
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I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.
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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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Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!
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I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
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We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
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I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
