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Madonna Ciccone on family
Author: Madonna Ciccone“On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.” -Madonna
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Charles Eastman on family
Author: Charles Eastman“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.” -Charles Eastman
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Julius Erving on family
Author: Julius Erving“But you know, we have a very normal family. We’ve had our ups and downs. You know, we’ve had our issues, but we’ve had great cause for celebration.” -Julius Erving
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T. Boone Pickens on family
Author: T. Boone Pickens“I’m a Republican. I don’t want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.” -T. Boone Pickens
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Melissa Gilbert on family
Author: Melissa Gilbert“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.” -Melissa Gilbert
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George Saunders on family
Author: George Saunders“When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.” -George Saunders
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Bryan Cranston on family
Author: Bryan Cranston“I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.” -Bryan Cranston
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Carlos Ghosn on family
Author: Carlos Ghosn“I have my family, my children – I have a lot of outside activities.” -Carlos Ghosn
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Rutherford B. Hayes on family
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes“Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.” -Rutherford B. Hayes
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Edward Norton on family
Author: Edward Norton“Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it’s guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.” -Edward Norton
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Sheldon Adelson on family
Author: Sheldon Adelson“If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell.” -Sheldon Adelson
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Russell Crowe on family
Author: Russell Crowe“Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I’ve stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.” -Russell Crowe
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Katharine Butler Hathaway on family
Author: Katharine Butler Hathaway“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” -Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Albert Brooks on family
Author: Albert Brooks“My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang
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Cyril Connolly on family
Author: Cyril Connolly“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.” -Cyril Connolly
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Sidney Altman on family
Author: Sidney Altman“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.” -Sidney Altman
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Aung San Suu Kyi on family
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi“One wants to be together with one’s family. That’s what families are about.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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Anne Tyler on family
Author: Anne Tyler“My family can always tell when I’m well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.” -Anne Tyler
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Al Sharpton on family
Author: Al Sharpton“The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.” -Al Sharpton
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Orlando Bloom on family
Author: Orlando Bloom“Movies like that aren’t about the visual effects and explosions. They’re human stories about family, about life, about death.” -Orlando Bloom
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Bonnie Raitt on family
Author: Bonnie Raitt“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.” -Bonnie Raitt
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Brad Henry on family
Author: Brad Henry“What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.” -Brad Henry
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Liz Phair on family
Author: Liz Phair“It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.” -Liz Phair
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James Earl Jones on family
Author: James Earl Jones“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.” -James Earl Jones
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Julie Burchill on family
Author: Julie Burchill“Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be ‘nothing.’ What a woeful lack of love for one’s country such statements express.” -Julie Burchill