Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Billy Corgan My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Mark Twain My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Corcoran My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • George Bernard Shaw My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ben Affleck My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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  • Adam Sandler My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bitsie Tulloch My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Woody Allen My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • John B. S. Haldane My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
    Source: American Psycho (2014) 302
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Agnes Martin My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Betty Cuthbert My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
    Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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