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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Adopted America Baseball Come Following He Late Latin Latin America Model Models Now One-Third Others Players Professional Professional Baseball Puerto Puerto Rican Rican Role Role Models Whom

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China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Adopted Capitalist China Poverty Rate System 1980S

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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

~Binyavanga Wainaina

Topics: Adopted Adopting Also Brothers Brothers And Sisters Christians Colonial Father First Good Grandfather Had Mixed Name Naming People Produce Schools Show Sisters Too Up Ways Were Western

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I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.

~Bryan Singer

Topics: About Adopted Am Another Child Extraordinary He Him Idea Identify Immigrant Love Only Only Child Powers Righteousness Superman Ultimate World I Am I Love

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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

~Buffy Sainte-Marie

Topics: Adopted Born Canada Grew Maine Massachusetts Up I Was Born

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I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.

~Buffy Sainte-Marie

Topics: Adopted Baby Canada Grew Infant Late Living Maine Massachusetts Returned Teens Up

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I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

~Buffy Sainte-Marie

Topics: Adopted Adoption Been Benefit Could Crazy Crazy Things Dealing Done Forties Got Hide Kidnapped Kinds Know Long Long Time Long Time Ago Over Papers People Perhaps Shameful Things Time Used Why Without

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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

~Carine Roitfeld

Topics: Adopted Am Androgynous Did He Her His Image Just Like Look Made Myself Own Protect Saint Shy Something Woman Women I Am

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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Adopted Been Child Child Labor Forms Hazardous International Just Labor Labour Legislation New Organization Work Worst

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I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

~Carrie Coon

Topics: Actually Adopted Born Brother Brothers El Salvador Had Kids More Oldest Parents Salvador Sister Then Three Two War Were Who

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