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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, Mothers, Road

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"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."

Charlie Hunnam, English Actor

Mother, Father, Care, Instinct

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"The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French."

"The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

Mother, Father, Daughter, Being

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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

Thurgood Marshall, American Judge

Mother, Goal, Baby, Challenge

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"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."

"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."

Morris Dees, American Lawyer

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"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."

"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."

Tom Felton, English Actor

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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."

"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Mother, Clothes, Hollywood

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"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."

"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

Mother, Film, Years

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"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows."

"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Shadows

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"Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles."

"Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."

"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."

Shemar Moore, American Actor

Mother, Hurt, Luck, Play

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"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."

"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."

Colin Firth, British Actor

Mother, America

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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."

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Mother, Being, Pets

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"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, Mothers, Old

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"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."

"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."

Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

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"My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans."

"My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans."

Susan Lucci, American Actress

Mother, Father, Americans, First

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"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."

Judy Davis, Australian Actress

Mother, Hurt, Memories

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"My mother taught me to read."

"My mother taught me to read."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

Mother, Confidence, Independence, Sense

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"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

Abigail Adams, American First Lady

Mother, Thought, Knowledge, Daughters

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"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar."

"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar."

Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician

Mother, Church, Children, Cooking

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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

Prince William, British Royalty

Mother, Destiny, Future, Job

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"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet."

"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, People, Earth, Harmony

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"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before."

"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

Mother, Father, Cooperation, Invention

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

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"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

Mother, Land, Will, World

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"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."

"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."

Karen Carpenter, American Musician

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"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."

"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

Mother, Dancing, Night, Party

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"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."

"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

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"I loved my mother, she's a good girl."

"I loved my mother, she's a good girl."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

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"She was a genius, my mother."

"She was a genius, my mother."

Sally Kirkland, American Actress

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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Mother, Protection, Parenting, Boundaries, Love

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"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."

"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

Mother, Sickness

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"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress

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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."

"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."

Stephen Sondheim, American Composer

Mother, Ambition, Celebrity, Clothes

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"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to."

"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to."

Pamela Anderson, American Actress

Mother, Children

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"I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much."

"I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much."

Janine Turner, American Actress

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"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."

"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."

Elayne Boosler, American Comedian

Mother, Mothers

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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."

"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."

Tina Turner, American Musician

Mother, Church, Rivers

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"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."

"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."

John Calvin, French Theologian

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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Being, Disaster

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"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

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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."

"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."

Randy West, American Entertainer

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"My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes."

"My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes."

Eva Gabor, Hungarian Actress

Mother, HusbFirst, Wishes

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"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

Mother, Vocabulary

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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."

"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."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

Mother, Character, Day, End

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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."

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."

Naomi Watts, English Actress

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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."

"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

Mother, Action, Daughters, Habits

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