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The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.
Hugo Chavez
War
World
Collapsed
System
Worthless
Born
After
Second
World War
Second World War
The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.
Hugo Chavez
Broken
Long
Monroe
States
Has-Been
Born
Imperialist
Between
Doctrine
Been
Impulse
Confrontation
United
United States
Necessary
I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
Hugo Pratt
Memories
People
Other
Born
Hawking
Part
Like
Deal
Round
There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.
Husnu Ozyegin
Live
Born
Supposed
Forever
Die
Businesses
Many
University
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Idi Amin
Good
Family
Me
You
Army
Soldier
Hunger
Born
Good Soldier
Know
Were
Very
Scottish
Escape
Officers
Loved
Poor
British
Enlisted
I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
Iman
Mother
Father
Parents
Country
Nothing
East
Somalia
Born
Africa
Which
Unheard
Poor
Started
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
Born
Had
Nobility
Human
Human Right
Right
Marie
Marie Antoinette
I was born in L.A.
India Eisley
Born
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
History
Father
King
Three
Before
Action
Think
Liberties
Member
Civil
Memphis
Civil Liberties
Born
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Something
Had
Years
Blood
Up
American
Grew
Union
Luther
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
Irwin Shaw
Born
Write
He
Poland
Singer
Isaac
Still
American
English
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
Irwin Thomas
People
World
Born
Performers
House
Came
Were
Lot
Where
Who
I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.
Isa Guha
Women
Made
Parents
First
Country
Feelings
India
Born
Known
Always
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Debut
Did
Wanted
Against
Asian
Bred
Team
England
Play
Playing
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.
Isabel Allende
Family
Me
Happy
Everyone
Liberated
Way
Marry
Born
Supposed
Make
Around
Female
Person
Any
Patriarchal
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
Isabel Sanford
Strength
Me
Fight
Before
Young
Other
Born
Only
Only Child
Both
Had
Combination
Passed
Off
Perry
Very
Mama
Quickly
Survived
Child
Disease
Lack
Six
Children
Illness
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
Isabella Rossellini
Love
Girl
Animals
Hair
Way
Born
Brown
Adored
Had
Always
Same
Rome
Which
Little
Little Girl
Pets
I was not to the manor born.
Israel Horovitz
Born
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
Italo Calvino
Will
Every
Cities
City
Born
Variety
Shape
Catalogue
New
Come
Until
Exhaust
Continue
End
Begins
Endless
Apart
Forms
Found
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
Italo Calvino
Parents
Born
Tropical
Cuba
Were
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
Italo Calvino
Born
Network
Tale
Always
Creates
Meanings
Image
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'
Ivan Illich
Education
Man
Society
Unless
Born
Remained
Arise
He
Idea
New
Provided
Began
Century
Incompetent
Early
Consensus
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman
Sense Of Humor
Better
Humor
Sense
Think
Changed
Worse
Born
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
Life
Family
Me
Experience
Black
My Life
Parents
Year
States
Neighborhood
Black Family
Life Experience
Born
Cross
Lawn
Previous
Had
Outsider
Feel
Like
Moved
Where
Burned
After
Explain
United
United States
Panama
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
J. C. Ryle
Life
Nature
New Life
Made
Outcome
Inseparable
Born
Born-Again
He
New
Principle
Always
Regeneration
Sanctification
Again
Who
Creature
Lives
Receives
Consequence
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
J. C. Watts
Thought
Black
Community
Imagination
Wildest
Neighborhood
Oklahoma
Would
Rural
Born
Someday
Never
Buddy
Six
Children
Poor
Fifth
Congressman
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard
November
Club
Avenue
Gatherings
Waterfront
Meetings
Embassy
City
Born
Magical
General
Various
Area
Hospital
Shanghai
Glamorous
French
Were
Western
Patriotic
Place
Suburbs
Race
Amherst
Lived
British
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop
Youth
Research
Spent
Pennsylvania
Rural
Born
Area
February
River
Forecast
West
West Bank
York
Bank
Childhood
Little
Held
Career
Biomedical
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