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Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI
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Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.
Robert Lanza
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
Action Bronson
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
Naveen Jain
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Ethel Merman
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My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.


Mr. T
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There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
Lauren Stamile
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I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.
Felicity Kendal
My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things.
Maria Bamford
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee
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My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.


Nicole Sullivan
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My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.
Wilbur Ross
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.
Rick Hoffman
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
Venus Williams
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My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
Brian Wilson
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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
Anne Lamott
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
Lawrence Lessig
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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