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I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
I didn't arrive on the scene until after Jaco Pastorius had passed, but 'Three Views of a Secret' is a long-time favourite of mine.
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.
My father's family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.
I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.
As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.
After my mother passed away, I really felt there were things that I hadn't said or things that I did say that I kind of regretted saying.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.
A nation should not be a hostage to one man's thirst for power, and it won't. Belarusians have woken up. The point of no return has passed.
I'm from Texas, so I'm an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in Vietnam, but who didn't?
When my grandma passed away, the one person I prayed for was my mom. I just hope that she finds peace. I hope she believes in a loving life.
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.
My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
I want to stay with the Tennessee Titans. They are the ones that took a chance on me - 31 teams passed on me on the draft and they selected me.
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.
I started stuffing wads of cash into my socks and underwear and quietly passed by the T.S.A. agents with a grin on my face and a sigh of relief.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.
When my mum passed away, I was very young, and I became very introverted and very quiet. I became very anxious about what people thought about me.
It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.