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• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  Will Hutton

  Children, Erosion, Years

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• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Black, Jerk

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• Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

  Avery Johnson

  Opportunity, Challenges, Lasts

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• God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright,
  For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;
  Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay,
  When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Jesus, Children, Block

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• As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.

  Eric Garcetti

  Retirement, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

  Judy Garland

  Garden, White, House

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• All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

  John Calvin

  Knowledge Of God, Obedience, True Knowledge

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• I want to thank my amateur trainer. We started at the bottom together. Just because you were born at the bottom doesn't mean you have to stay at the bottom. After Saturday night, we're going to put that bologna away and go get a steak.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Mean, Night, Together

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• I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

  Adrienne Bailon

  New York, Humble, Cities

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• Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Christian, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Memories, People, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Song, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Age, Acting, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Pain, Reality

  "Black power mixtpe co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Culture, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Kids, Moon, Numbers

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

  Christian Boltanski

  Optimistic, People, World

  "To die is very strange". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

  Christian Boltanski

  Thinking, Feelings, Lucky

  "To die is very strang". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Flair

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Feminist, Environment, Biology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Moving, Fall, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. Spring 2015.

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• I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

  Micah Lexier

  Keys, Childhood, Used

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

  Frank Langella

  Kids, Feelings, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, World, Ends

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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