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  • Shaun White on mom

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    “My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.” -Shaun White

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  • Paula Poundstone on mom

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    “My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’” -Paula Poundstone

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  • Nelson Algren on mom

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    “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” -Nelson Algren

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  • Adam Lambert on mom

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    “My dad is a Deadhead, my mom’s a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.” -Adam Lambert

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  • Norah Jones on mom

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    “I could do without ‘cool’ publications calling me ‘mom jazz.’ But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.” -Norah Jones

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  • Cindy Crawford on mom

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    “I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.” -Cindy Crawford

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  • Jenny McCarthy on mom

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    “When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • Brandon Boyd on mom

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    “My parents are wonderful, and I’m really lucky – but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.” -Brandon Boyd

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  • Harry Connick, Jr. on mom

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    “My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don’t make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • Maurice Sendak on mom

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    “Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • Mia Hamm on mom

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    “I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I’m constantly re-evaluating how I’m doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it’s as a mom or taking care of myself.” -Mia Hamm

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  • Diablo Cody on mom

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    “Fact: The new ‘90210’ is cooler than the old ‘90210.’ It’s the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series’ venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents – they’ve been replaced by a hipster mom n’ pop who get busted necking in the car.” -Diablo Cody

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  • Ani DiFranco on mom

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    “I’ve never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn’t some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So…

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  • Christina Ricci on mom

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    “My mom knows when something is real and something is not.” -Christina Ricci

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  • Lenny Kravitz on mom

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    “People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.” -Lenny Kravitz

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  • David Duchovny on mom

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    “I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.” -David Duchovny

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  • Helena Bonham Carter on mom

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    “My mom being a psychotherapist, I’ve been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.” -Helena Bonham Carter

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  • Julia Roberts on mom

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    “My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch – peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don’t know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does – but there’s still time.” -Julia…

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  • Chris Christie on mom

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    “Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her…

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  • Miley Cyrus on mom

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    “I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad’s not overly protective, but he’s a dad no matter what.” -Miley Cyrus

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  • Candace Cameron Bure on mom

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    “I’m a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple – I have way too many in my closet! It’s warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed…

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  • Chris Brown on mom

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    “I didn’t understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.” -Chris Brown

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  • Tim Tebow on mom

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    “I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, ‘Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.’ And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.” -Tim Tebow

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  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt on mom

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    “My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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  • Tom Morello on mom

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    “The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building.” -Tom Morello

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