I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.
Aubrie Sellers
FamilyMyselfTexasBornCitizen
While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.
Kygo
GrowRememberBornGrow UpUpHere
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
FamilyMotherPowerfulBornBronx
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
Steven Spielberg
ThinkFindBornEscapeMoviesWay
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.
Edward P. Jones
BornChicagoWashingtonPlacesBeen
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
Denis Leary
SkyYellowParentsImmigrantsBorn
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
Tim Wise
HistoryManColorWhiteBornHim
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
Ernie Els
LoveThoughtBornLivingAfricaTwo
Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
John M. Grunsfeld
StarsBornBeingUsMarvelMajesty
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
BornRealProfessorsPoetsRarest
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
Michael Socha
StyleBornHip-HopCasualLivedMix
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner
PowerMenYouBornBeingSouls
I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
Alia Shawkat
GreatSmallGrowSmall TownBornUp
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski
TalentBornBeastWhereI Was Born
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
FamilyPurposeSmallBornVillage
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
Siri Hustvedt
MyselfCuriosityBornDesireMastery
Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
Zak Orth
NameShortBornNeverMiddleAdam
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.
Dorothy Thompson
NatureAgeTiredPeopleEnergyBorn
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
Tim Cahill
BornBluesFirstPonyLayersWho
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
HopeMomentBornReadyBecomeBirth
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
John Mellencamp
PeopleGreedBornExpectationSales
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
Jacques Pepin
BornThreeThirtyBirthTwoMiles
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.
Mona Eltahawy
SupportBornMoreAfghanistanOut
I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
Narendra Modi
I AmYouBornWrongSayNothing
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