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I’ll never amount to anything!. I’m from Nowheresville . Birthplace Matters?. Can you locate Qinghai, Inkandla , Nambour , Agusta , Mineola or Waterville on a map?. Nowheresville is Everywhere. It’s not where you are from that makes you what you are. What you become is up to YOU.
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I’ll never amount to anything! I’m from Nowheresville.
Can you locate Qinghai, Inkandla, Nambour, Agusta, Mineola or Waterville on a map?
If it were different, the following people would not be “where” they are now.
Vladimir Putin Leningrad, USSR Barack Obama Honolulu, Hawaii 14th Dalai Lama Qinghai, China
Hillary Clinton Chicago, IL John McCain Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Panama Canal Zone HuJintao Jiangyan, China
Jacob Zuma Inkandia, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa George W. Bush New Haven, CT Anwar Ibrahim CherokTok Kun Malaya
Bartholomew I Imbros, Turkey Kevin Rudd Nambour, Queensland, Australia Ben Bernanke August, GA
Robert Gates Wichita, KS Michelle Bachelet Santiago, Chile Muqtada al-Sadr Baghdad, Iraq
BaitullahMehsud Bannu District, NWFP, Pakistan Sonia Gandhi Lusiana, Veneto, Italy Evo Morales Orinoca, Bolivia
AshfaqKayani Gujar Khan Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan Ma Ying-Jeou Kowloon, Hong Kong
Angelina Jolie Los Angeles, CA Brad Pitt Shawnee, OK Oscar Pistorius Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Oprah Winfrey Chicago, IL
Mia Farrow Los Angeles, CA Lance Armstrong Plano, TX Andre Agassi Las Vegas, NV
Bob and Suzanne Wright Mineola, NY Peter Gabriel Chobham, Surrey, England Kaká Brasilia, Brazil
Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum Dubai, United Arab Emirates YoaniSánchez Havana, Cuba MadeehaHasanOdhaib Iraq
Randy Pausch Baltimore, MD Lorena Ochoa Guadalajara, Mexico Tony Blair Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom
Alexis Sinduhije Bujumbura, Burundi Aung San SuuKyi Rangoon, British Burma George Mitchell Waterville, ME
Jill Bolte Taylor Terre Haute, IN Michael Bloomberg Boston, MA Craig Venter Salt Lake City, UT
Larry Brilliant Detroit, MI Jeff Han Studied at NY University Mehmet Oz Cleveland, OH
Nancy Brinker Peoria, IL Harold McGee Schenectady, NY Peter Pronovost Waterbury, CT
Mary Lou Jepsen Has MS from MIT Eric Chivian and Richard Cizik USA Paul Allen Seattle, WA
Nicholas Schiff MD from Stanford Mark Zuckerberg White Plains, NY Wendy Kopp Austin, TX
Shinya Yamanaka Osaka, Japan James Thomason Oak Park, IL Susan Solomon Chicago, IL Michael Griffin Aberdeen, MD
Isaac Berzin Educated in Israel
Robert Downey, Jr. New York City, NY Lorne Michaels Toronto, Ontario Canada Miley Cyrus Nashville, TN
Herbie Hancock Chicago, IL Joel and Ethan Coen St. Louis Park, MN Bruce Springsteen Long Branch, NJ
Peter Gelb New York City, NY Mariah Carey Huntington, Long Island, NY KhaledHosseini Kabul, Afghanistan
Elizabeth Gilbert Waterbury, CT RemKoolhaas Rotterdam, Netherlands Judd Apatow Flushing, NY
Alex Ridopulos Has a degree from MIT EranEgozy Israel Tim Russert Buffalo, NY George Clooney Lexington, KY
SuzeOrman Chicago, IL Tyler Perry New Orleans, LA Stephenie Meyer Hartford, CT
Tom Soppard Zlín, Czechoslovakia Chris Rock Andrews, SC Takashi Murakami Tokyo, Japan
IndraNooyi Chennai, Tamil Nadu India Ali al-Naimi AlRakah, Dhahran Saudi Arabia Rupert Murdoch Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Radiohead Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England UK John Chambers Cleveland, OH Steve Jobs San Francisco, CA
Jay Adelson California Steve Ballmer Detroit, MI Jeff Bezos Albuquerque, NM
Jamie Dimon New York City, NY Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Jeddah, Saudi Arabia JouJiwei Beijing, China
NeelieKroes Rotterdam, Netherlands Jeffrey Immelt Cincinnati, OH Karl Lagerfeld Hamburg, Germany
Lloyd Blankfein Bronx, NY Carlos Slim Mexico City, Mexico Mo Ibrahim Sudan
Ratan Tata Bombay Presidency, British India Cynthia Carroll Degrees from Skidmore College, U of Kansas, Harvard University CarineRoitfeld Paris, France
Michael Arrington Grew up in California and Surrey, England