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On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from th... ALEXIS OHANIAN
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last woun... CLIVE SINCLAIR I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.
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My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Ji... JANE PAULEY If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have ...
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was plante... ROWAN ATKINSON
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn... JONI MITCHELL My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
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JERRY PETERSON I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and ...
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of ... JANET FITCH My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the...
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My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'So... TREY PARKER
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To be somebody you must last. 
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. 
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I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. 