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  • Billy Corgan My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.
    Source: Rolling Stone. 23 January 1997
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bradley Cooper My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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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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  • Brody Jenner My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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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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  • Agnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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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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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Quentin Crisp My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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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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  • Ben van Berkel My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Barry Marshall My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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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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  • George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Brandi Carlile My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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