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I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.
- Roz Chast
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
- Jane Fonda
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When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'
- Romario
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I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
- Aida Turturro
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I was born and brought up in Vizag 'til 12th Class.
- Sobhita Dhulipala
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I wasn't born a superstar.
- Missy Elliott
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Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.
- Ricky Gervais
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My little sister Debbie was born at Aldergrove, and my nan is from southern Ireland, so I do try and get over quite a bit.
- Ricky Whittle
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Art is born of humiliation.
- W. H. Auden
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
- Alan Cheuse
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I am very aware of my family name. I'm very aware of the legacy that that kind of carries with it. And I think that I didn't want to lose any kind of hold of that. And I think once you're born into something that you're proud of and that you're aware of, you don't take it lightly.
- Stella McCartney
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I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
- Howard Fast
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
- Seamus Heaney
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
- Iris Chang
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From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
- Selman Waksman
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I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as a martial artist, and as a martial artist, it's what I always wanted to do - test myself and always fighting. It's what I'm meant to do.
- Anderson Silva
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My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.
- Meredith Eaton
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I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.
- Miyavi
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I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
- Anthony McCarten
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The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
- John Thorn
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Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn't even born when the men's team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn't tell you much about that game.
- Millie Bright
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
- Babe Ruth
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I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.
- Wong Kar-wai
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America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
- Gad Elmaleh
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I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
- Peter Sis
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
- Sam Donaldson
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I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.
- Joey Lauren Adams
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Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.
- Tom Reiss
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I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.
- Emilie de Ravin
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I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.
- Alexander Volkanovski
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We know that people who are born with shorter telomeres than normal also have a shorter lifespan. We know that shorter telomeres can cause a shorter lifespan.
- MarĂa Blasco Marhuenda
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My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.
- George MacKay
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
- John Collison
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The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
- Robin Trower
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
- Muddy Waters
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I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it's where I started Papa John's, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.
- John Schnatter
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While we are originally from Mangalore, my grandfather had migrated to Burma from where he returned to join the Indian National Army and settled in Mumbai, where I was born and brought up.
- Amrita Rao
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I was born in America. I was raised in America. And America truly has done me a lot of dirt, a lot of horrible things that I never will forget, but I know this is where I was born at.
- Charles Bradley
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I was not born with many technical skills. I had to improve and work.
- Giorgio Chiellini
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I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
- Suzy Parker
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But I was born in the real world, I'm from the streets.
- Wanderlei Silva
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I'm a born fighter.
- Josh Barnett
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I was born in a city and I didn't think I'd ever want to leave the city life.
- Neil Etheridge
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I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
- Lawrence R. Klein
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I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
- Benjamin Millepied
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
- Lacey Schwimmer
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One is born to be a great dancer.
- George Balanchine
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If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.
- Gregg Popovich
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I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.
- Sirio Maccioni
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I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.
- Luke Campbell
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
- Willie Stargell
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My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
- Aishwarya Rajesh
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I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
- Catherine Helen Spence
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Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
- John Mahoney
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I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.
- George Shearing
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I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
- Eva Longoria
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You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
- Valerie Simpson
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
- Hampton Sides
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I think if I hadn't been born in a pit village I'd have been part of a dramatic society.
- Dennis Skinner
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I was born in Indonesia and will die in Indonesia.
- Suharto
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I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.
- Tim Hunt
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Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.
- Belle Boyd
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
- Anne Perry
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We are Punjabis from Amritsar, though I was born and brought up in Mumbai and did my Bachelors in Mass Media, specializing in advertising and marketing.
- Kajal Aggarwal
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'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
- Honeysuckle Weeks
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
- Wislawa Szymborska
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I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.
- Lakeith Stanfield
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
- Erica Jong
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My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
- Brian McDermott
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My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.
- Arjun Kapoor
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
- Liam Payne
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I think the best thing to say is that I was born to fight.
- Mirko Cro Cop
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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
- Jermaine Jackson
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The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.
- Sayani Gupta
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Congress should pass a law repealing birthright citizenship for children of foreign citizens, with the sole exception being children of legal permanent residents. Children born to business travelers, foreign students, tourists, and illegal aliens would not be automatically citizens of the United States.
- Tom Tancredo
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I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.
- Ravi Subramanian
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My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.
- Kurt Angle
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
- Sam Shepard
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
- Boris Becker
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
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I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!
- Katie McGrath
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I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
- Art Donovan
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I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.
- Paz de la Huerta
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.
- Richard Cabral
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Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
- Clemantine Wamariya
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My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.
- Elliott Yamin
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I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
- Chris Geere
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One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.
- Henry Rollins
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When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
- John Mellencamp
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I think any great culture is born out of transparent, authentic communication. You almost can't overcommunicate. You can try, and you might think, 'Oh, do I really have to say this again?' And the answer is yes.
- Brad Garlinghouse
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I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- Emma Gonzalez
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I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
- Lucy Hale
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
- Helen Frankenthaler
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One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
- Helen Frankenthaler
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My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
- John Eisenhower
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