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  • Jerry Falwell on family

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    “God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.” -Jerry Falwell

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  • Katey Sagal on family

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    “I do a lot of writing about my family.” -Katey Sagal

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  • Jenson Button on family

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    “When I’m on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I’ve had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.” -Jenson Button

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  • Monica Bellucci on family

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    “In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.” -Monica Bellucci

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  • Robin Gibb on family

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    “I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.” -Robin Gibb

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  • Edward Furlong on family

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    “I’d be a liar if I said I had a normal family.” -Edward Furlong

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  • Rupert Murdoch on family

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    “I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation.” -Rupert Murdoch

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  • Igor Stravinsky on family

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    “A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.” -Igor Stravinsky

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  • Harvey Weinstein on family

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    “I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don’t care if it’s a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.”

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  • Kit Bond on family

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    “According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.” -Kit Bond

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  • Giada De Laurentiis on family

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    “My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I’m just me – their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they’re older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.” -Giada De Laurentiis

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  • Gus Van Sant on family

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    “Because I didn’t have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them – but it was not my family.” -Gus Van Sant

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  • Talcott Parsons on family

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    “The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.” -Talcott Parsons

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  • Howard Gardner on family

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    “The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it’s Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.” -Howard Gardner

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  • Thomas Mann on family

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    “Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.” -Thomas Mann

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  • Tom Hardy on family

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    “I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” -Tom Hardy

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  • will.i.am on family

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    “If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there’s a bank. There’s grocery stores and big houses – but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.” -will.i.am

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  • Star Jones on family

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    “We fight a lot, you know, but that’s family. We may be dysfunctional but we’re still family.” -Star Jones

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  • Tom Hanks on family

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    “No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don’t parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.” -Tom Hanks

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  • Bradley Whitford on family

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    “I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don’t think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they

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  • Jonathan Sacks on family

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    “We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • Tyler Perry on family

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    “I’m not sure why no one wants to admit there’s a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.” -Tyler Perry

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  • Heath Ledger on family

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    “Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.” -Heath Ledger

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  • Bjork on family

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    “I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.” -Bjork

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  • Steven Patrick Morrissey on family

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    “My family, although they’re very large on both my parents’ sides, they don’t know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can’t get very far, and it’s baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it’s proven to be very difficult, so I know very

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