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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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You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it, but talent is a scientist.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio apart from ghazals, western music, and 'Himachali' folk songs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in Asian homes it is all about where we've come from, which is important too, but it is about where you live and where you're born and the people who are the same as you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.
- Superstar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't born a superstar.
- Matter
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Poland, and then I was six years in France. I returned to Poland, and then, at the age of eight and a half, we came to Germany.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.
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- Nov 07, 2020