mom

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘mom’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don’t die. I’ve done so many movies where I’ve died that their first question when I book a job is, ‘So, are you going to die in this?’” -Michael Ealy

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  • “My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that’s really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.” -Amanda Hocking

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  • “I couldn’t wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom’s stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.” -Florence Griffith Joyner

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  • “My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.” -Hunter Parrish

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  • “For a kid who’s lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.” -Jon Hamm

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  • “I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.” -Michael Bergin

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  • “But the fact is, I’m not work-identified. I’m not a lawyer or a writer. I’m a mom, and I’m a woman, and that’s the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.” -Lisa Scottoline

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  • “My father left… but I tell my mom – and I told my mom this when I was a kid – I said, ‘You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you’re a strong woman.’” -J. R. Martinez

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  • “When I came out of my mom’s womb, I had ‘sitcom’ stamped on my forehead.” -Sean Hayes

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  • “I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.” -Linda Evans

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  • “I’m probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.” -Mary Cheney

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  • “My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.” -Peter Agre

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  • “I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.” -Jai Rodriguez

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  • “I am a mom as well as a senator!” -Patty Murray

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  • “I had so many offers after ‘True Blood’ for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball’s vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I’ve always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I’ve never really had the chance to do that.” -Michelle Forbes

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  • “I’d never really babysat. I feel like I’m Blair, or ‘Gossip Girl.’ A teenager, basically – and now suddenly I’m a mom?” -Cecily von Ziegesar

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  • “I always wanted to be a mom.” -Kate Hudson

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  • “When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn’t go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.” -Rich Lowry

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  • “I don’t deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that’s one thing I am constantly working on – pain management.” -James Belushi

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  • “Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I’m going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.” -Ricky Martin

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  • “I would borrow my mom’s red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!” -Brooke Burns

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  • “There was a point – when I was a kid – where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.” -Chaske Spencer

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  • “I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.” -Debi Thomas

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  • “I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.” -Harry Reid

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  • “I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.” -Scott McClellan

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  • “I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.” -Dr. Dre

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  • “My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.” -Joely Fisher

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  • “I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there’s got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.” -Carol Leifer

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  • “My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It’s pretty incredible.” -Oliver Hudson

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  • “For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.” -Lisa Leslie

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  • “My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!” -Abigail Breslin

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  • “I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember…

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  • “My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.” -Dakota Fanning

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  • “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.” -Scott Speedman

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  • “My mom would be leaving the house and she’d say, ‘Don’t you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!’ And the door would close, and that’s exactly what I’d do. The show was calling me!” -Michael Patrick King

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  • “I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.” -Viola Davis

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  • “My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.” -Patrick Rothfuss

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  • “Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she’s in her mid- to late 70s.” -Jamie Moyer

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  • “I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.” -Brie Larson

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  • “I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child – it’s ok to make mistakes.” -Regina King

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  • “But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’” -Ali Larter

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  • “I’m talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I’m talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.” -George Thorogood

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  • “My mom, she’s from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.” -Donal Logue

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  • “Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.” -Edie Brickell

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  • “My mom was definitely very strict with me.” -Gloria Estefan

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  • “I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.” -Rita Ora

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  • “My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything.” -Isabelle Huppert

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  • “Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I’m a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!” -Martha Quinn

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  • “My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.” -Molly Sims

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  • “I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.” -Bryan White

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  • “It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.” -Karrie Webb

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  • “I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.” -Jason Mewes

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  • “There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn’t be here to see this.” -Maya Rudolph

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  • “My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.” -Zosia Mamet

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  • “Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.” -Chantal Kreviazuk

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  • “I was into opera as a kid – I’d play ‘Carmen’ and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.” -Nina Arianda

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  • “If I lived alone, Mom’d never sleep because she wouldn’t know I was okay.” -Scott Baio

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  • “My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.” -Brandi Chastain

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  • “I don’t know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom – she’s the coolest. She’s worked really hard her whole life and I just think she’s got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it’s so silly.” -Larisa Oleynik

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  • “My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.” -Kendrick Lamar

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  • “I love playing moms. It’s a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.” -Faith Ford

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  • “The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A’s in all my classes.” -Sara Paxton

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  • “My mother smokes me out. We’ll get these long periods of me thinking I’m too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she’ll send me something. My mom’s a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these ‘woe is me’ things. I think she might be Jewish. I’m…

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  • “Death can’t be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.” -Danny Aiello

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  • “My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.” -Kate O’Brien

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  • “The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.” -Alyssa Milano

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  • “When I was a kid and got in trouble, I’d always say, Mom, I’m in trouble. Well, Mom, I’m in trouble.” -Earl Campbell

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  • “Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.” -Angela Kinsey

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  • “I’m like any working mom.” -Kelly Ripa

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  • “I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.” -Trisha Yearwood

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  • “I’m proud of what I look like. I’m proud that I look like my mom.” -Lisa Guerrero

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  • “You know when everyone’s watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.” -Shaun Alexander

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  • “My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.” -Casey Affleck

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  • “I can’t remember a time when my mom didn’t work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.” -Hoda Kotb

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  • “I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I’m able to talk to her about anything.” -Jessica Szohr

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  • “Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.” -Tom Hardy

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  • “My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.” -Christian Slater

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  • “My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she’d always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don’t see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.” -Angela Bassett

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  • “My mom, she’s a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.” -Kate Walsh

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  • “My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.” -Ryne Sandberg

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  • “Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it’s all about the mani and pedi.” -Tia Mowry

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  • “Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.” -Arianna Huffington

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  • “When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it’s hysterical.” -Alia Shawkat

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  • “I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.” -Aaron Carter

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  • “My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration – and toughest critic.” -Aaron Sanchez

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  • “My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn’t what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and – the guy told me it was a really good deal – made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.” -Dan…

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  • “My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it’s always been a dream of hers.” -Chanel Iman

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  • “When you’re a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I’ve got other things to deal with.” -Faith Hill

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  • “I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.” -Iggy Pop

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  • “I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor’. And she said, ‘Maybe not that’.” -Octavia Spencer

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  • “Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten’s neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.” -Cheryl Hines

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  • “I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.” -Sam Rockwell

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  • “In Fargo, they say, well, that’s a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.” -Chuck Klosterman

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  • “Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.” -Greg Louganis

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  • “If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.” -Patsy Cline

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  • “I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.” -Ricky Skaggs

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  • “My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.” -Slash

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  • “I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” -Eva Longoria

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  • “I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom… lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.” -Freddy Adu

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  • “I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, ‘My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.’ I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I’d had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I’d like to do that again.” -Chester Brown

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  • “As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won’t use them for my own press.” -Jami Gertz

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  • “It’s hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It’s hard to switch gears.” -Lee Ann Womack

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  • “President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here’s a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett’s.” -Rob Portman

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  • “My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn’t do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.” -Vanessa Carlton

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  • “The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.” -Vince Gill

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  • “I’ve changed my life in a lot of ways. I’m a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren’t what I care to express right now.” -Cheryl James

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  • “My mom was a ’70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.” -Melissa Leo

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  • “For me, just being how old I am, I know I don’t want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I’ve also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I’m actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a…

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  • “My mom didn’t use face cream, like, nothing at all. She’s got great skin and looks very youthful.” -Lara Stone

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  • “I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a…

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  • “Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have…

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  • “My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other’s houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.” -Beau Bridges

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  • “I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.” -Helen Hunt

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  • “The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.” -Sean Lennon

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  • “I’ve had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.” -Jenna Fischer

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  • “I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.” -Michelle Trachtenberg

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  • “I’m a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.” -Valerie Bertinelli

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  • “I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.” -Connie Stevens

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  • “I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I’d go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.” -Taryn Manning

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  • “I was born in Texas and I lived there ’till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.” -Michelle Rodriguez

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  • “And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It’s someone who’s protective. That’s all.” -Nigel Lythgoe

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  • “My dad’s half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I’m three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.” -Tom Shadyac

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  • “My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me – and I read ’em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything – Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What,…

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  • “Not that we didn’t have close relationships with our parents – I’m very close to my mom – but parents didn’t think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.” -Candice Bergen

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  • “Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.” -Lynn Johnston

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  • “What mom cares about most is that I’m happy, healthy and enjoying my life.” -Chaz Bono

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  • “My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.” -Ellen Pompeo

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  • “I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.” -Carmelo Anthony

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  • “My mom can’t defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It’s a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone’s life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about…

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  • “I’ve always been a writer because I’ve always been a student. My mom’s a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?” -Kerry Washington

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  • “My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She’d look at ‘Heavy Metal’ and go ‘Woo-hoo!’” -Zack Snyder

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  • “You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.” -Joan Cusack

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  • “My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.” -Kevin Richardson

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  • “I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.” -Ryan White

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  • “My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.” -Loni Anderson

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  • “I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.” -Kevin Eubanks

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  • “My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.” -Queen Latifah

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  • “I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different.” -Charisma Carpenter

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  • “Our parents are obviously proud, but they’re still trying to get used to the fact that we’re in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn’t in it!” -Zayn Malik

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  • “My parents are both very funny but they’re also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I’m just a lunatic. I don’t know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I’m just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It’s not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom…

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  • “I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.” -Melissa Bean

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  • “I’m a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.” -Christine Baranski

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  • “My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.” -Susana Martinez

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  • “My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.” -Michael Kors

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  • “My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.” -Tracy Austin

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  • “My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area – Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.” -David Cassidy

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  • “Some of the best times I’ve spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I’m concerned to see today’s kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.” -Mark Udall

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  • “I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it’s meaningful, and I like the song. It’s a love song – kind of – but it’s kind of depressing and dark.” -Aubrey Plaza

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  • “I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it’s in my blood.” -Mandy Moore

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  • “My mom loved to sing – and I’ll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I’d get up and move away from her!” -Kenny Rogers

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  • “I’ve never had my brows done – I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that’s how I learned.” -Emmy Rossum

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  • “My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the ’60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on – her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.” -Emmanuelle Chriqui

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  • “No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.” -Ryan Lochte

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  • “I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.” -Valerie Jarrett

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  • “The fact that I’m very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It’s nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.” -Kate Bosworth

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  • “I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.” -Ruby Wax

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  • “When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn’t want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn’t be an actor if I didn’t get the braces. So, I got the braces.” -James Franco

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  • “Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I’m so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.” -Tony Visconti

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  • “My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she’d make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5’8″ and weighed 165 pounds.” -Carol Alt

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  • “My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.” -Steve Case

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  • “I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month – because my father would be waiting for paycheck – the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food…

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  • “I grew up in the ’80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&ampB. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.” -Ruben Studdard

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  • “I’m from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I’m born and bred country. That’s all I listen to.” -Lucy Hale

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  • “My mom is a sculptress.” -P. J. Harvey

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  • “My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did ‘Meek’s Cutoff.’ She’s an extraordinary actor and mom.” -Zoe Kazan

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  • “I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.” -Tina Fey

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  • “I had such a great mom and I know that I’d never be that mom. I wouldn’t want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.” -Lara Flynn Boyle

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  • “My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.” -Ray Lewis

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  • “Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.” -Kathie Lee Gifford

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  • “My mom used to tell me: ‘It’s not what you weigh it’s what you look like.’” -Gina Carano

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  • “My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.” -Victor Cruz

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  • “Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn’t going to be like that. But now I know I’m going to be exactly like my mom. I’m going to be worse!” -Nicole Scherzinger

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  • “Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.” -Liv Tyler

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  • “My mom’s been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn’t really see my dad that much.” -Skeet Ulrich

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  • “I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.” -LeAnn Rimes

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  • “My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom’s very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.” -Tim Heidecker

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  • “Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It’s great.” -Jessica Hahn

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  • “I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.” -Jennie Garth

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  • “I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, ‘Can we just stay?’ So we did.” -Lily Collins

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  • “I’m a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I’m not competitive is when I’m playing against my mom.” -Michael Chang

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