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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."
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Personal Development

"Necessity, the mother of invention."
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Personal Development

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
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"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."
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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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"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."
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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."
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"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."
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"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."
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"It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all."
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"People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does."
People

"PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV."
People

"Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there."
Work

"The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it."
Mystery

"The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me."
Horror

"Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this."
People

"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."
Childhood

"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself."
Religion

"Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world."
World
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