"I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms."
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"I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing."
"What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on."
"Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after."
"Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember."
"I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount."
"I don’t think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there."
"If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me."
"We are all born; some remain so."
"Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?"
"He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright."
"I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth."
"I am an American – Chicago born."
"It is well to be born either a king or a fool."
"I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world."
"Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how."
"We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing."
"Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains"
"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."
"How we are born to invent our own miseries!"