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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
- Nov 07, 2020
People aren't born racist.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else in my life. All four of our boys were born and raised here. All of our friends are here.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
- Nov 07, 2020
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020