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“I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.”

Should Believe Has Beens Important Dream Today Given Born Growing Up Growing Advantage Important Things Don't Believe Guides Priorities Elites American Dream Reserved

Author:Ken Salazar

“We never change, we never die, and we are never born.”

Dies Change Born Never Change

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.”

Knows Has Beens Done Whole Earth Humanity Born Race Blood Hero Died Deeds Mischief Precision

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.”

Writing Made Character Born Exercise Flesh Free Will Volition Fictional Character

Author:John Banville

“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

Made Values Literature Born Poor Poverty Fate Taught True Value

Author:Anatole France

“Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.”

Knows Humans Jobs Humanity Dies Born Human Beings Buddhism Unconscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maybe I was just born to argue with men.”

Men Born Arguing

Author:Johann Lamont

“I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.”

Thinking Way States Born United United States Optimist American Way Of Life

Author:Paullina Simons

“There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.”

Thinking Heart Long Book Soul Suffering Dies Born Live Your Life Definite Exterior Long Suffering Analysing

Author:Paullina Simons

“Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.”

Children Faces Jesus Christ Born Lord Jesus Christ Pro Life

Author:Pope Francis

“It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.”

States Kids Culture Speak Language Born Community United United States Losing Latino Really Sad Culture And Language

Author:Romeo Santos

“I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.”

Sides Born New York My Family Raised Italian Both Sides Descent Born And Raised

Author:Aida Turturro

“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?”

People Way Looks Two Problem Born Committed Gender Homosexuality No Problem Aberration Committed Relationship

Author:Andrea Thompson

“I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.”

May Born Jersey New Jersey Newark

Author:Joe Tex

“The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.”

People Mind Wells Long Helping Might Strong Born Gone Trouble Grew Healthy Helping People Of My Mind Healthy Life

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.”

Born Ability Music Is

Author:Robin Trower

“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.”

Mean Art Individual Born Fields Grew Genius Musician West Western Grass Soil Art Music

Author:Toru Takemitsu

“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.”

World Has Beens Humanity Culture Individual Social Born Democracy Fire Projects Division Prisoner Hierarchy Puppets Emancipation Social Division

Author:Roberto Unger

“No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.”

Eye Born Monocles

Author:Conrad Veidt

“Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.”

Order Dies Born Rooms

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.”

Names Born Design Competition Raised Architect Submission Memorial Premises Virginia Born And Raised

Author:Amy Waldman

“I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.”

Knows Men World Might Black Born Regret Equal Late Independence Slave Doctrine Declaration Always Believe I Regret Declaration Of Independence Born Free

Author:Benjamin F. Wade

“Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.”

Believe Made Born Simple Cities Raised Kansas Missouri Kansas City

Author:Chely Wright

“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Thinking Ends School Political Born Practice Politician Practicals The End Of The Day Political Science

Author:George Weah

“Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.”

Doe Voice Born Generations

Author:Saul Williams

“See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.”

People Giving Born Ability Cooking Believer Flavor

Author:Roy Yamaguchi

“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.”

Born Environment Birth Skins Noses Throat Womb Living On Canals Bacteria

Author:Paul A. Offit

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.”

Born Dying Diversity Arise Symptoms Morbid Knowledge And Power Great Diversity

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?”

Inspirational Moments Born Buddhism Add Unhappiness Incarnation Moments Of Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.”

Knows Inspirational Body Dies Born Hurt Buddhism Ecstasy It Hurts Comprehension Life Hurts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.”

Born Meditation Source Buddhism Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.”

Humans Problem Body Universe Asks Born Walks Awareness One Day Infinite East Hinduism Galaxy No Problem Human Body Peasants Transport Huts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.”

Has Beens Earth Dies Universe Born Grief Grieving Life And Death Transformed Butterfly Caterpillars Grieving A Death

Author:John Harricharan

“That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.”

Values Born Proud Blessed Circles Parenthood Family Values

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.”

Night Song Born Transcendentalism

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!”

Men World Order Born Struggle Chaos Every Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I was born in a blender.”

Born Blenders

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.”

Born Boys Childhood New York Raised Brooklyn Brooklyn New York

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“Germany has been born anew.”

Has Beens Born Germany

Author:Robert Ley

“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”

Born India

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.”

Term Born Ability Dna Born Again

Author:Bill McCartney

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.”

Heart Christian Born Changed My Heart Coats Born Again

Author:Tony Vincent

“My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.”

Together Father Born Time Together

Author:Joe Wright

“Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.”

Firsts Seems Born Natural Caves Puzzled

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”

Thinking Wells Enough Mother Girl Born Creativity Lucky Piano Fairy Lazy Call Me Nuts Glitter Dressed Up Louisiana Plantations Rebecca

Author:Rebecca Wells

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.”

Years Three Born Five Crisis Dues Significant Maturity Five Years Bullets Loan Mortgage Great Depression 1930s Foreclosure Dodging Bullets

Author:Mark Zandi

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