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So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Author:
Mortimer Zuckerman
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Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.
Author:
David Zucker
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Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
Author:
Anders Zorn
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
Author:
Ziyi Zhang
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
Author:
Ahmet Zappa
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If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
Author:
Anzia Yezierska
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.
Author:
Lee Yew
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Author:
William Yeats
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Author:
Lois Wyse
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Author:
Frank Wright
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I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
Author:
Chely Wright
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Author:
Fay Wray
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
Author:
Fay Wray
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
Author:
Fay Wray
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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
Author:
John Wise
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
Author:
John Wise
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
Author:
John Wise
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My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
Author:
Mary Williams
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
Author:
Mary Williams
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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
Author:
Esther Williams
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It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.
Author:
Prince William
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My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.
Author:
Geoffrey Wilkinson
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
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Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
Author:
William Wiley
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On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.
Author:
Ryan White
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Author:
Ryan White
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Author:
Patrick White
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?
Author:
Donald Westlake
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As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
Author:
Randy West
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Author:
Mae West
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A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
Author:
Benjamin West
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Author:
Thomas Wentworth
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
Author:
Raquel Welch
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It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
Author:
George Weinberg
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
Author:
Mark Webber
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I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
Author:
Sela Ward
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Author:
Vera Wang
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I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
Author:
Julie Walters
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I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
Author:
Julie Walters
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I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.
Author:
Julie Walters
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Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
Author:
Julie Walters
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I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Author:
Alice Walker
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Author:
Voltaire
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I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
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For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Author:
Gianni Versace
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
Author:
Gloria Vanderbilt
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
Author:
Karl Urban
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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Author:
Cicely Tyson
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
Author:
William Tyndale
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I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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I am scared of becoming a mother.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Author:
Anne Tyler
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
Author:
Tina Turner
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I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
Author:
Janine Turner
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No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
Author:
Margaret Turnbull
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Author:
Ivana Trump
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Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
Author:
Margaret Truman
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Author:
Calvin Trillin
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Author:
Lars Trier
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Author:
Obie Trice
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
Author:
William Trevor
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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Author:
Alex Trebek
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Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Author:
Merle Travis
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My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.
Author:
Michelle Trachtenberg
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
Author:
Ernst Toller
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And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
Author:
Mel Tillis
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You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
Author:
Mel Tillis
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Author:
Kristin Thomas
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I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Author:
Kristin Thomas
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Author:
William Thackeray
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Author:
Shirley Temple
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Author:
Jane Taylor
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
Author:
Amy Tan
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
Author:
Amy Tan
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
Author:
Amy Tan
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Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit.
Author:
Sonia Taitz
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
Author:
Max Sydow
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My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.
Author:
Joan Sutherland
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.
Author:
Nicole Sullivan
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
Author:
Ed Sullivan
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My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
Author:
Mark Strong
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The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.
Author:
Mink Stole
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My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
Author:
Dean Stockwell
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My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Author:
Jerry Stiller
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If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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A boy's best friend is his mother.
Author:
Joseph Stefano
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It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.
Author:
Joseph Stefano
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Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
Author:
Peter Steele
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Mother Nature is not sweet.
Author:
John Spong
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
Author:
Benjamin Spock
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My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.
Author:
Ronnie Spector
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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Author:
Muriel Spark
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I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.
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Soundarya
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When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
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Mira Sorvino
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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Sophocles
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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Stephen Sondheim
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After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
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Georg Solti
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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Patti Smith
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Patti Smith
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Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
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Liz Smith
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I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
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Chad Smith
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Samuel Smiles
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But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
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Agnes Smedley
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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Agnes Smedley
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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Agnes Smedley
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I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
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Erika Slezak
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My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
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Erika Slezak
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I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
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Helen Slater
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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.
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O. Simpson
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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O. Simpson
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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Paul Simon
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
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Carly Simon
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
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Martin Short
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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Carol Shields
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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Richard Sheridan
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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Sam Sheppard
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Sam Sheppard
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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
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Martin Sheen
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I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.
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Ally Sheedy
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My mother taught me to read.
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Fiona Shaw
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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Garry Shandling
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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
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Tupac Shakur
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
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Robert Service
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Thank God for your mother.
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David Selznick
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
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John Sebastian
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It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
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Steven Seagal
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Author:
Jill Scott
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Olive Schreiner
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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Phyllis Schlafly
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My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
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Egon Schiele
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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Bob Schaffer
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In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
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Jessica Savitch
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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Marilyn Savant
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It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
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Fred Savage
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I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.
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Jennifer Saunders
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
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Milton Sapirstein
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Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
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Margaret Sanger
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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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Margaret Sanger
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Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
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Margaret Sanger
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Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
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Frederick Sanger
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
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Adam Sandler
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I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
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Leverett Saltonstall
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.
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Zoe Saldana
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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
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Mercedes Ruehl
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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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Wilma Rudolph
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Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
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Rita Rudner
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
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Rita Rudner
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My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
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Rita Rudner
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
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Georges Rouault
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I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
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Judith Rossner
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But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
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Isabella Rossellini
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I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
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Isabella Rossellini
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
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Isabella Rossellini
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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Isabella Rossellini
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In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
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Ernestine Rose
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
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Dave Ronk
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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
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Sonny Rollins
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They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.
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Al Roker
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When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
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Al Roker
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My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
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Ginger Rogers
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My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
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Jai Rodriguez
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Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.
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Andy Roddick
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I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
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Norman Rockwell
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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
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David Rockefeller
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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
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David Rockefeller
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
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David Rockefeller
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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Arthur Rock
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My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
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Smokey Robinson
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My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
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Paul Robeson
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Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
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Sam Rivers
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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
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Joan Rivers
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Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
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Geraldo Rivera
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I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.
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Geraldo Rivera
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Samuel Richardson
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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Patricia Richardson
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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Patricia Richardson
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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Little Richard
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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
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Little Richard
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I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.
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Ving Rhames
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Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
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Tommy Rettig
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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Jules Renard
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I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.
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Leah Remini
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My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
Author:
Della Reese
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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Ronald Reagan
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He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.
Author:
Usher Raymond
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Francois Rabelais
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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Dan Quayle
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I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Author:
Paul Prudhomme
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My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
Author:
Sergei Prokofiev
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Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
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Romano Prodi
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
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Priscilla Presley
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
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Paula Poundstone
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One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
Author:
Eleanor Porter
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
Author:
Plato
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
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Frank Pittman
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I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
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Nelson Piquet
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It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
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Charles Pierce
