Daniil Kharms quote: "I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison."

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE

I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER

I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE

I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL

I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON

Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN

Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that...
VANILLA ICE

I was raised doing martial arts.
VICTOR WEBSTER

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa...
AFROJACK

I was happy where I was. I liked what I was doing. It was my life.
GLADYS POZZA

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa...
SIMON VAN BOOY

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD

I was born with a fierce need for independence.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD

I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Beirut is where I was born and raised.
REEM ACRA

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. PAUL GETTY

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
STEVEN SEAGAL

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
CHARLES OLSON

I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE

My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING

I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doi...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG

My birthday was coming up and we hadn't talked about it. I dreaded it. I was in no mood to celebrate...
E. J. HARINGTON

When I learned that, I knew it was a sign that he was OK and happy and had died doing what he loved.
IDA TINGUELY

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON

When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing...
NIECY NASH

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
TOBIN BELL

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
MANNY PACQUIAO

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have f...
SAM SHEPARD

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
JONATHAN GROFF

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
BUDDHA

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
ERIC BALFOUR

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a...
AUDREY HEPBURN

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
TONY CURTIS

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.
JESSICA SANCHEZ

I was born to play baseball.
ROBERTO CLEMENTE

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
GAYLE FORMAN

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA

I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.
KIM ALEXIS

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD

I was born a character actor.
CHARLES DURNING

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard a...
CARRIE PRESTON

Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.
CRISTIANO RONALDO

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retr...
DAVE GROHL

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
KAMALA HARRIS

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
LARRY WILCOX

When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And ...
VINOD KHOSLA

I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside ...
KIMBERLY NOVOSEL

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
JANIS IAN

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy perso...
DEEPIKA PADUKONE

I had fun with my tight end playing days (but) I was happy when they were over. I was ready to move ...
TOM ASHWORTH

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG

Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI

When I got to the finish line, I saw that nobody was close to me. I was happy for me and for my team...
CRISTIAN ZORZI

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
CURT SCHILLING

I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I was...
CANDIS CAYNE

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
LACEY SCHWIMMER

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
MAYA ANGELOU

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something tha...
EMMY ROSSUM

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; N...
THOMAS CAMPBELL

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

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I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

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