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I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
Joanna Going
Father
First
Before
Christopher
Months
John
Born
Parent
Bearing
First Child
Named
Catherine
Passed
Maternal
Aunt
Child
Going
Just
Grandmother
Who
Initial
Away
I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.
Joanna Going
Mom
Family
Women
Father
Parents
National
Before
Birth
Back
Born
Council
Federal
Simply
Catholic
Trade
Island
Editor
Were
Commission
Where
Rhode
Rhode Island
Moving
Roots
Working
Awaiting
Washington
Raise
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Born
Also
Known
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Therefore
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi Picoult
Gay
Rights
Think
Gay Rights
Born
About
Something
Most
Because
Been
Happen
Straight
Us
I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.
Jodie Comer
People
Losing
Become
Sense
Drama
Dramas
Humour
Born
Costume
Period
Because
Always
Very
Often
Just
Wooden
Just Because
Wanted
Personalities
Sudden
Sudden People
Start
I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.
Joe Calzaghe
Age
London
Born
Brought
Up
Wales
Two
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Joe Frazier
Water
Black
Hatred
White
Carolina
Destiny
Folks
Born
Tougher
Coloured
Had
Animosity
Know
Mississippi
Came
Lines
South
Georgia
South Carolina
Than
Alabama
Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.
Joe Gebbia
Problem
Our
Airbnb
Out
Born
Rent
Up
We believe that the best solutions come from solving your own problem. If you have a real problem, there's likely someone else who can relate. That's how Airbnb was born.
Joe Gebbia
Best
You
Problem
Own
Believe
Relate
Else
Airbnb
Solutions
Solving
Born
Someone
Come
Likely
How
Real
Real Problem
Your
Who
I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.
Joe Lhota
Me
Born
Through
Had
Always
Person
Going
Streak
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.
Joe R. Lansdale
Best
Everything
Eased
Claimed
Born
Part
Supposed
Up
America
Grew
Then
My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I grew up with a different perspective.
Joe R. Lansdale
Life
Mother
Perspective
Parents
Believe
Born
Life Experiences
Were
Up
Than
Different
Experiences
Grew
Younger
Different Perspective
Dad
I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.
Joe Tex
Born
New
New Jersey
May
Newark
Jersey
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).
Joe Tex
Parents
Few
Brazil
Living
Born
Both
Area
Soon
Since
Days
Years
South
South Florida
Moved
After
Younger
Lived
Ever
Florida
Here
Portugal
My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel Osteen
People
Church
Born
Had
Over
Continue
Years
Just
Dad
Grow
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
Johan Renck
Business
Wish
Born
Could
Had
Been
Years
Movie
Movie Business
Earlier
Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.
John Barrowman
Day
Type
Born
Never
Since
Retiring
Been
Ever
Shy
Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
John Barry
You
Yourself
People
Free
Control
Rich
Other
Filthy
Bennett
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Responsible
No Control
Born
Stuff
Sinatra
Over
Does
Get
Did
Done
Just
Hold
Then
Really
Who
Tony
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.
John Battelle
Together
People
Key
Three
First
Born
Between
Parties
Also
Audience
Commercial
Interaction
Order
Foster
Media
Publishers
Bring
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
John Boehner
Revolution
Our
Born
Fires
Freedoms
Ideals
Were
Historic
Enlightenment
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
John Burnside
Great
Me
Sometimes
Before
Wild
Born
Only
Rivers
Disappoint
Know
Prairie
Still
Were
Existed
Sublime
Forests
American
Just
Century
Landscapes
Reason
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
John Burroughs
Life
Great
Me
Wind
My Life
Accidents
Earth
Has-Been
Born
Seems
Both
Struggles
Had
Undergone
Tide
Been
Losses
Wanted
Fortunate
Grouch
Illness
Lucky
Star
Suffered
Defeats
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
John Burroughs
Made
Born
Only
Poets
Observation
Like
Years
Then
Painstaking
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!
John C. McGinley
Journey
Challenges
Son
Grace
Complicated
Father
Daughter
Down
Syndrome
Has-Been
Born
Name
Am
Been
His
Years
Years Ago
Infantile
Max
Dietary
Puberty
Twelve
Now
Sleep
My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.
John C. McGinley
Day
Son
Born
Princess
Max
Died
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
Mom
School
Engineer
High
Brother
Born
High School
Both
County
Were
Math
Very
Irish
Trained
Electrical
Dad
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