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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.
- Prince William
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All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud. That's all I've ever wanted to do.
- Prince Harry
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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.
- Frank Pittman
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'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.
- Wyck Godfrey
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I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.
- Stephanie Seymour
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I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.
- Tobe Hooper
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Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
- Joan Blades
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There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.
- Jane Goodall
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All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
- Ray Comfort
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I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
- Catherine Helen Spence
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Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
- Catherine Helen Spence
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I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
- Missy Elliott
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My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
- Angie Everhart
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
- Michael Sheen
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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.
- Jerry Stiller
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When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.
- Kelly Slater
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When I was younger I used to volunteer at the Mother Teresa charities in India.
- Laila Rouass
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I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.'
- Sherman Hemsley
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Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.
- Paula Patton
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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
- David Geffen
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
- Ram Kapoor
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My mother is my best friend and my biggest critic.
- Ishaan Khatter
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My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
- Tom Heinsohn
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I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
- Ashleigh Banfield
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There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.
- Faith Ringgold
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There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.
- Richard Dawson
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And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'
- Richard Dawson
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As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
- Tig Notaro
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I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.
- Saweetie
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My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'
- Luke Bracey
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I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
- Elizabeth Olsen
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
- Sam Donaldson
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
- Sam Donaldson
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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When I was like nine or 10, my stepfather and my mother would just say 'if you want to be one of the greatest, you've got to work when nobody's working,' so I'd get up at 5:30 A.M. and head to the outdoor court and play.
- Zion Williamson
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My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.
- Hannah Bronfman
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Basically, whenever I watch my mother on screen, I never judge her as a performer; I always see her as my mother and I become emotional.
- Prateik Babbar
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It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
- Tony Parsons
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My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
- Dorothy Dunnett
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I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.
- Eva Zeisel
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My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.
- Tonya Harding
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Feminism is being able to have the choice - the choice to be a CEO, to be an executive, to be a journalist, to be a congresswoman, to be a mother, a stay-at-home mother, to be a wife.
- Stacey Dash
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
- Natascha McElhone
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The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son.
- Han Fei
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The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.
- Han Fei
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I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.
- Marisa Berenson
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I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
- Celine Dion
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I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.
- Vicky McClure
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Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
- Prince Harry
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I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.
- Charlotte Casiraghi
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My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.
- Athanasios Orphanides
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
- Lois Wyse
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We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
- Ernie Banks
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My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.
- Virginia Euwer Wolff
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'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.
- Christopher Lloyd
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My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
- Aishwarya Rajesh
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
- Natalia Makarova
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My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.
- Sobhita Dhulipala
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My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
- Peter Dinklage
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I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from the same village as I do and my mother used to be his teacher. I was so inspired by his success.
- Eliud Kipchoge
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Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
- John Mahoney
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I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian, from the Flemish part. Dutch was my mother language, and I learned English, and I speak French, too.
- Eline Powell
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
- Jack Reynor
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I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
- Daryl Hall
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Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.
- Merrill Markoe
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I am a hands-on mother and don't rely on maids.
- Ayesha Takia
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Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.
- Tuppence Middleton
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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.
- Chow Yun-Fat
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Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.
- Maisie Williams
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
- Kajal Aggarwal
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I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.
- Greta Gerwig
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My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
- Floyd Skloot
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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
- Meg Wolitzer
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I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.
- Meg Wolitzer
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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
- Meg Wolitzer
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I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.
- Mike Dean
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Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.
- Gina Rinehart
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Many people don't realize that June Carter Cash was my godmother. She and mother were very tight.
- Hank Williams Jr.
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To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.
- Jermaine Jackson
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I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.
- Margaret Trudeau
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I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.
- Rosie O'Donnell
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I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
- Jan de Bont
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Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
- Dennis Banks
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It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
- Dennis Banks
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Busta Rhymes is my brother from another mother.
- Xzibit
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That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.
- Alexis Wright
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My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
- Tom Berenger
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Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
- Margaret Truman
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I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
- Annie Lennox
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
- Kapil Sharma
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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
- Donna Leon
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You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
- Mariska Hargitay
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The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
- Art Donovan
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I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
- Art Donovan
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I have an uncle I no longer talk to because of a joke I made about my grandmother, who is his mother. He's an 80-year-old man upset about a woman who died 15 years ago.
- Jim Jefferies
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