Born Quotes
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I was born a character actor.
Charles Durning
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
Studs Terkel
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.
Mikhail Lermontov
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The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.
Ben Bova
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But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Joseph C.Lincoln
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
Grace Slick Starship
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
Sarah Dessen
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
Sarah Silverman
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I was born where there were no enclosures.
Geronimo
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I was born to murder the world.
Daniel von Bargen
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We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
Ray Bradbury
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Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
Erwin McManus
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My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.
Kate Thornton
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I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
Milton Berle
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So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
Eda LeShan
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I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.
Eleanor Brown
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
Red Auerbach