They say history always repeats itself and I pulled a lot of inspiration from the ’90s and ’80s and ’70s. I don’t know if I was born in the wrong decade or something, but I really gravitate towards that era.
There’s that Bob Dylan quote: ‘He who’s not busy being born is busy dying.’ That’s a great line. And I really believe that.
I don’t even know when my father admitted me to school. During those days in villages, people did not remember the exact date a child was born. It was usually only the season that they remembered.
I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.
North Carolina – our great state – means everything to me. I was born, raised, and educated here. I started and raised my own family here. And as Governor, I want to build a state where all North Carolinians are afforded the opportunities I’ve had.
Anyone born after 1985 has grown up during the post-liberalisation honeymoon, when a rash of new banks, phone companies, airlines, care and durable goods manufacturers were wooing them or their parents for business.
Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.
I was born in Amarillo. And my brother, who was a year older than I, had trouble saying the word ‘Sister,’ it came out ‘Sid.’ So I was called Sid.
As blessed as I am, I clearly was not born with the twerking gene. It’s safe to say that I won’t be winning a twerking contest anytime soon. The robot on the other hand is a different story.
I was born in Holland, Rotterdam, and lived there most of my life. I started my acting career there, but to really be successful, I left Holland and came to the U.S.
When I was three, I ran over my brother, David. Hed just been born, everybody was paying him attention and being the narcissist that I am, I ran him over with my tricycle.
I was born into such a loving, caring family who were super liberal and supported me no matter what.
Not all of us were lucky enough to be born into a huge Lebanese family, where visiting relatives and being stuffed with copious amounts of pickles, hummus, felafel and kibbeh is not just a way of life but a birth right.
Not one team knew I struggled with that – not being able to pick up the phone and call my dad and ask him, Can you help me?’ Or, Are you proud of me?’ Or to cherish me being drafted or my kids being born.
I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America – my parents were born in Cuba – and we didn’t yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.
My boys are Cornish because they were all born there, but Im quite happy just to be an admirer.
It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.
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