883 Quotes About Born

  • Author Wale
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    You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

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  • Author Wayne Wonder
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    I actually grew up in the city. I was born in Portland (in the country), but I was brought to the city ever since I knew myself at a tender age.

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  • Author Pope XIII
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    Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits

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  • Author Ada Yonath
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    My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.

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  • Author Gene Luen Yang
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    For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

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  • Author Hanya Yanagihara
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    I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

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  • Author Kim Yuna
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    I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

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  • Author Lee Thompson Young
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    Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

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  • Author Laurence Yep
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    My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

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