Quotes with never-born

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  • Seneca I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Madonna I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • James Baldwin I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • James Baldwin I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Judy Garland I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Buddha I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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