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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."

"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."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

Mother, Sister, Friend, Want

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"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."

"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."

Pierce Brosnan, Irish Actor

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"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."

"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

Mother, Opera, Singing

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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."

"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."

Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Celebrity

Mother, Chance, Europe, Fact

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"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."

"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."

Janet Suzman, South African Actress

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"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."

"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."

Joan Armatrading, St. Kittsian Musician

Mother, Songs, Writing

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"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."

"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."

Felicity Kendal, English Actress

Mother, Hope, Flirting

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"With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?"

"With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?"

Marcello Mastroianni, Italian Actor

Mother, Friend, Woman

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"My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend."

"My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

Ellen DeGeneres, American Comedian

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"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."

"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."

Audrey Meadows, American Actress

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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."

Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist

36

"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."

"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."

"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."

Ellen Barkin, American Actress

Mother, Son, Eyes

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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."

"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."

Etta James, American Musician

Mother, Thought

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"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Judge

Mother, Lady, Girls, Growing up

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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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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."

"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor."

Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor

Mother, English, Language

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"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person."

"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person."

Lisa Kudrow, American Actress

Mother, Acting, Body, Effort

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"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

Mother, Devil, Faces, Saying

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"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."

"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."

Carly Simon, American Musician

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"I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie."

"I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie."

Bernadette Peters, American Actress

Mother, Day, Play

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"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college."

"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college."

Roma Downey, Irish Actress

Mother, Father, College

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"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."

"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

Mother, Jazz, Today

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"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."

"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."

Sally Field, American Actress

Mother, Son, Being, College

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"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."

"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."

Buck Owens, American Musician

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"My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats."

"My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats."

Yancy Butler, American Actress

Mother, Father, Name

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"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."

"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."

John Lone, American Actor

Mother, Father, People, Friend

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"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."

"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."

Kitty Carlisle, American Musician

Mother, Thought, People, Hollywood

27

"My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess."

"My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess."

Mariah Carey, American Musician

Mother, Father, Irish

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"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

Andy Partridge, British Musician

Mother, Influence, Parents

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"Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that."

"Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

Mother, Father, Jobs, Kids

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"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

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"Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits."

"Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits."

Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

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"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."

"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

Mother, Achievement

25

"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."

"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."

Etta James, American Musician

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"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

Jessica Lange, American Actress

Mother, Children, Motherhood, State

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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."

"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."

Hoagy Carmichael, American Composer

Mother, Man, Now

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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."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

Frank Pittman, American Psychiatrist

25

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

Mother, Celebrity, Company

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"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her."

"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her."

Jane Fonda, American Actress

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"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."

"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

Mother, Father, Artist, Liza Minelli

24

"Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one."

"Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one."

Merle Travis, American Musician

Mother, Wife, Credit

24

"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."

"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."

Denzel Washington, American Actor

Mother, Sister, Thought, Light

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"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."

"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."

Linda Lavin, American Actress

Mother, Singing, Voice, Want

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"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

Mother, Father, Engineering, English

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"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."

"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."

Shimon Peres, Israeli Statesman

Mother, Brother, Taste

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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."

"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."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."

"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."

Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

Mother, Knowledge, Ignorance, Wonder

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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."

"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."

Shirley Temple, American Actress

Mother, Santa claus

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