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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
- American Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020