Quotes with jewish-born

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  • W. H. Auden When a succesful author analyzes the reasons for his success, he generally underestimates the talent he was born with, and overestimates his skill in employing it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Vilanch When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián When desire dies, fear is born.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George S. Kaufman When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
    George S. Kaufman
    American playwright, director and producer (1889 - 1961)
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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill McCartney When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Aldous Huxley which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Florio Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Anais Nin Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jean Baudrillard You are born modern, you do not become so.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Vauvenargues You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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