Ellen Pompeo Quotes
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
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We need to get young people excited about politics, excited about government.
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Whether we realize it or not, we automatically copy the facial expressions we see..
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Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.
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Being a mother is magical.
