Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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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.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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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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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 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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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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My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
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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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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
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I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
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The little that we doIs but half-nobly true;With our laborious hivingWhat men call treasure, and the gods call dross,Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving,Only secure in every one's conniving,A long account of nothings paid with loss.
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Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.
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Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.
