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		When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bernie Siegel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jan Hammer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
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		Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community... If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margaret Mead
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lucille Clifton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Linda Blair
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Kuralt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marcello Mastroianni
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lorrie Moore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David LaChapelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm just a normal girl. People have these preconceived notions about what movie stars are about and how we've grown up. My mother is pretty regular and raised us just like anyone else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Twinkle Khanna
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Max Heindel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Geraldine: I've no idea who my father was.Prentice: I'd better be frank, Miss Barclay. I can't employ you if you're in any way miraculous. It would be contrary to established practice. You did have a father?Geraldine: Oh, I'm sure I did. My mother was frugal in her habits, but she'd never economize unwisely.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Orton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paula Yates
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Babatunde Olatunji
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luke Rhinehart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Victoria Abril
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was it for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maura Tierney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Dickinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Karam
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nia Long