“I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people.” PeopleKnowsImportantEarthLyingBornClearFiguresGreatnessSevenPrivilegeAbsolutely NothingSteersGreatness Within Author:Farrah Gray
“We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.” PeopleGivingArtistBornChanceHeardMusic Business Author:Erykah Badu
“I'll just keep going till people get disinterested. It's what I was born to do and thankfully, people have shown an interest. I never do anything to be famous.” PeopleInterestBornKeep GoingDisinterested Author:Doc Brown
“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.” PeopleYearsFirstsMomentsMotherOpportunityNamesGivenBornBrotherMoonLifetimeFortunateRight TimeRight PlaceFlewWright Brothers Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.” PeopleMenFeelsBelieveKindPersonsDifferentStoriesCertainI BelieveBornInfluenceTypeFindingsI Believe InDifferent KindsPreferenceDifferent PeoplesFinding LoveFree Love Author:Lana Del Rey
“The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.” PeopleHumansReasonPlayFeelingsHappensHateBornRaceRacismFeel GoodHuman RaceRacistAbout Yourself Author:Toni Morrison
“Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.” PeopleWayWellsBeautifulBornWake Up Author:Dolly Parton
“He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.” PeopleDoeHumorChristianFunnyBornMistakeFocusStupidMixturesBorn Again Author:Marc Maron
“I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.” PeopleThinkingStoriesFatherBornSituationComing Out Author:Anne Waldman
“I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsStillsGamesBornPovertyRapLife Changing Author:Jon Connor
“People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.” PeopleTryingSexParentBornDyingHaving Sex Author:Mechai Viravaidya
“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsCareCausesBornChanceBusinessTakenProductsRedCampaignsBuyingAssociatesDavos Author:Bill Gates
“I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.” PeopleThinkingDifferentFormBornRaceRacismDiscriminationColourInherentDifferent RacesDifferent Colours Author:Pearl Tan
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.” PeopleYearsDoeAgeEnergyStrongBornTiredBirthdaySeventies60th BirthdayBirthdays And AgingInspirational BirthdayGetting Tired40th BirthdayOld BirthdayMilestone BirthdayGoing StrongBirthday Humor Book:The courage to be happy Source: The courage to be happy
“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.” PeopleWellsAbleHouseBornSimpleRichToo MuchInfluenceHonestHonestyMassSimplicityAcquireSenateRepresentativesHouse Of RepresentativesOstracism Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.” PeopleImportantEndsSometimesHomeLife IsBornImportant ThingsOur FamilyCarrieComing HomeThings In LifeCity LifeMost Important Things In LifeSex And The City Author:Candice Bergen
“The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.” PeopleIfsWayShouldStoriesJesusBeliefBornMillionsPlanetsBirthHolyOffersFundamentalsWaveBuddhistGuidanceIslamicFlagsVirginsLiteralPaganMetaphoricalCanonLotusesDocumentationTorahVirgin Birth Author:Dan Brown
“Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsFeelingsParentBornFreedomBirthRefuseSurrenderDestroyedSubtleDaringImprisonmentTrue Feelings Author:Jim Morrison
“Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.” PeopleHas BeensDiesFightingBornBattleInnovationSignificantCommitteesMessy Author:Rands
“I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.” PeopleThinkingArtistBornLuckSurroundingsMixtures Author:Francis Bacon
“You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.” PeopleTryingBelieveIdeasJesusBornBecomingBorn Again Author:Martin Scorsese
“I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.” PeopleMenWayKindImportantYoungUsedGirlBornClassSittingMovedLondonUsed To BeYoung ManAcquireCouchesChelseaUpper Class Author:Manolo Blahnik
“I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI CanRealGivenI BelieveBornActingPathSeriousCallingReal Life Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFilmUnderstandingBornNaturalWonderTalentDirectorsCommunicateDialoguePlotPta Author:Edward Norton
“Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.” PeopleThinkingBelieveChildrenImportantFilmI BelieveBornLosesMy OwnWalksTakenSeeingMessagesAdultsEmbraceIndividualityIdiosyncrasies Author:Brittany Murphy