- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born Quotes
Where you start shapes who you become.
This page gathers quotes about origins in the literal sense — being born into music, born in a specific state or country — alongside a more analytical note on how each generation's tastes differ from the one before it. For more on personal identity, see our Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Messed Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with an evil face.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020