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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
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My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.
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I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky's, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.
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When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.
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From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
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I got my ball-handling skills naturally. I know I can get better, and I will get better, but it's something I was born with.
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I was a major Anglophile. My brothers and I were raised knowing both languages, French and English. My dad was born in Austria, educated in Britain, and then went back to France. My mom was born in England, but raised in Egypt and Malaysia. We were a globetrotter family.
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I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.
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People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world.
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When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.
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I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.
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Justin Bieber was born with the Superman powers. He could sing, he could dance, he could play instruments. I wasn't born with those gifts, so I had to become a different kind of superhero... I'm a normal Joe. But, with a lot of effort, I've got a shot at being Bruce Wayne.
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'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
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I don't know of anyone as natural born an actor as Sridevi. She was a complete actress.
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