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...really intimidates you? -Shaun Brauteseth, Port Elizabeth, South AfricaMy mother when she is angry, because she is the biggest influence in my life and her opinion matters so much to me. She didn't raise me to be intimidated much, though I feel very intimidated if I have to go down a red carpet or stand next to celebrities or be in that sort of environment. The whole idea of being in a place where I'm kind of the square peg for a round hole makes me very nervous...
...downscale voters as the candidate of élites, if not élitist himself. Five days after his comments first surfaced on the internet, a Google search of Snobama was bringing up nearly 4,000 hits--which is ironic, considering that he is the only candidate in the race whose mother once collected food stamps. That's why he has rolled out the endorsements of Bruce Springsteen and the American Hunters and Shooters Association and put more emphasis on what he shares with working-class voters. He talked about the struggles of his single mom, and the fact that...
...talk me out of selling it. "When are you doing this?" she asked. "I have a lot of gold I'd love to get rid of. I wear more costumey, fun stuff. I think it's younger-looking." I do not have a particularly sentimental mother...
Known as Mama B to her friends and family, Cedella Booker, the mother of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, was an accomplished artist. In addition to penning two biographies of her world-famous son, the Jamaican native recorded albums, including Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Married to Bob's father Norval Marley for nearly 30 years, until his death in 1955, she later remarried and moved to the U.S. Like her son, who died in 1981, she passed away in Miami...
...exactly the setting you would expect from the self-styled "rebel billionaire," the man who signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records and then tried to bring that same swagger and cheek to the airline business at Virgin Atlantic. I ask him about his mother, a stewardess in the glamour days of the 1950s, and Branson launches into a well-worn tale about her blithely crossing the Atlantic on an airline whose planes didn't always cover the distance...