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"My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?"
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."
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"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."
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"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up."
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"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."
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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
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"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
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"It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean."
Family
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
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"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
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"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
Family
"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."
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"Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time."
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"And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
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"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time."
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