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My family`s been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I`m bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say, "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr.." It`s not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

- Liza Minnelli

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I`ve ever eaten. It`s like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

- Robin Williams

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

- Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

- Douglas MacArthur

I`m a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it`s like losing a leg.

- Judy Holliday

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you`ll watch tomorrow. It`s going to be another great look back.

- Catherine Crier

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

- Marquis de Sade

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

- Amos Oz
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As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

- Wally Schirra

Love of fighting was bred in the blood of the race because those who did not love fighting were not suited to their environment and perished.

- Alberto Madrigal

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Alexander Nikonov

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

- Alexander Theroux

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

- Aly Byorick

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

- Aly Byorick

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father`s estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

- Aly Byorick

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

- Aly Byorick

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

- Andrew Sharnov

She was a great person, a good mother, a wonderful sister and a great daughter. We were just a small family, born and bred in the Westchester area. This is just a huge tragedy.

- Anne Morrison

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

- Oscar Wilde

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction

- William Osler