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  • Busy Philipps My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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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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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bob Marley My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
    Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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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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  • Brigitte Bardot My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Billy Crudup My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bill Hader My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bre Pettis My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Oprah Winfrey My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Hannah More My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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