Mother Quotes - Page 19

• The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Creative, Sides, Compromise

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.

  Hank Stuever

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

  John Malkovich

  Memories, Father, Self

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

  A. R. Rahman

  Awards, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.

  John Legend

  Target Audience, Care, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

  Betty Friedan

  Energy, Use, Discrimination

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Eye, America, Tennis

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Baby, Get Away

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2011

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• It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Expression, Roots

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Children, Father, Taken

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• From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Thinking, Church, Firsts

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• In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Children, Party

  "Netanyahu vows to take on Barak" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2000.

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• My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

  Doug Stanhope

  Dark, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

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• It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.

  Michala Petri

  Thinking, Piano, Technique

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• I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Dream, Military

  "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.

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• Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

  Dan Heath

  Tattoo, Father, Fall

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• Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mothers Day, Wall, Fists

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• Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Nerves, Fine, Heard

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• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessed, Ambition, Wish

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• Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Pain, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3005, Manonmani Publishers

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• My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Guy, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

  Maggie Steber

  Twenties, Way, Faces

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• My father never cheated on my mother. He used to cheat on me. He used to pick other kids after school. Take them to the zoo. Take them to play ball. One day he came to me. He says, Look I got to level with you. I met another kid.

  Dom Irrera

  Zoos, Father, School

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• Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

  J. B. Smoove

  Father, Mother's Day, Sequels

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• I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from.

  Ashley Graham

  Body, Said, Given

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