- Creative
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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
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's your favorite color - I didn't know.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.
- Run
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 27, Bob Dylan had already written 'Highway 61 Revisited,' the Beatles had released 'Rubber Soul,' Bruce Springsteen had recorded 'Born to Run' and U2 had delivered 'The Joshua Tree.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020