On any given night, venues like Don't Tell Mama on West 46th Street and the Metropolitan Room on West 22nd are holding up cabaret culture.

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But if he did it that way, he shouldn't of went to mama's house and picked me up and put me in a car, if he knows that was going to happen.

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"Mama didn't have furniture in the living room and dining room till after high school, " Moore says.

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The critics can't knock those trust funds Mama set up for us.

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So Mama Fleur didn't feed me meat or milk so that I'd stay small and not have to go to work in the cotton fields.

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"There's a saying in Spain: 'El que no llora, no mama' (he who doesn't cry, doesn't get the milk), and it's applied to football in Spain, " Ball told CNN.

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Wolf doesn't know how much the park's owners paid for Little Mama, who was certainly no baby when she came to Lion Country Safari 45 years ago.

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In the note, which reads more like a kind Mother's Day letter, Matthew thanked his "mama" for making him the man he has become and said he couldn't ask for a better mother.

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That's not to say there aren't a few laugh-out-loud sight gags and a couple of good one-liners stolen by mama Kathy Bates.

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