Dennis Edwards Quotes
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield -
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 -
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
Kaniehtiio Horn -
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine -
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Val McDermid
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
Karen Finerman -
The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
Ina Garten -
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
Jacki Weaver -
I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice -
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Natalie Wood -
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
Kate Bush -
I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.
Natalia Vodianova -
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus -
My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
J. J. Abrams -
I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
Aaron Neville -
My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
Ursula Burns
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In L.A., I love being with my friends and being able to eat out and wear tank tops at night.
Bella Hadid -
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon -
It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
Patrick Ness -
I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
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