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- Feb 09, 2022
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- Last Updated on Feb 09, 2022
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am overwhelmed for whatever I have achieved so far. I give the credit to my mother and everyone who has helped me.
- Coordinating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to go to Europe to study, and that's when my mother's disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. Then I said, okay, this is more important than my career in music.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of the legend surrounding my mother is true. She was a beautiful, talented, warmhearted woman who had the greatest sense of humor. At the same time, she was a sharp, fiery lady who was full of spunk and had a flashy temper.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was just the most wonderful mother. She loved working with Fred Astaire - she would talk about working with him.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised as a Catholic and as an Ismaili. My father felt that I should have some training in Islam, but my mother was a Catholic, so really, I was raised with both.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And then they divorced and she came back to America.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
- General Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
- Fault
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.
- Mother Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.
- Federal Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
- Nov 07, 2020
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
- Body Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my body image struggle started very young. All that I heard from my mother, my aunts, and my mom's friends was, 'I gotta lose five pounds.' At 5 years old, I learned a size 2 is not thin enough. It was, 'Don't eat carbs! Don't eat sugar! Drink Diet Coke! You always diet!' So that was engrained in my brain at a very early age.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly, as a kid, my mother had 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' and used to listen to it over and over and over.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was assistant governor of the prison, so there were times when he would bring some of that discipline home. He was the enforcer, whereas my mother, who was a stay-at-home mum, was always the pacifier.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020