family
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘family’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.” -Theresa May
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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” -Buddha
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“The importance of human life should be universally respected – and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.” -Christopher Monckton
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“While Free Choice Vouchers didn’t fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family’s…
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“I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won’t be offended.” -David Sedaris
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“I’ve always known I wanted a family.” -Charlize Theron
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“My family makes these vinegars – out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.” -Mario Batali
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“I would like a food/lifestyle show. We’re not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.” -Cat Cora
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“I work six months and get three or four with the family. I’ve stopped racing to get to the red light.” -Kyle Chandler
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“I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.” -Sara Blakely
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“I’m just a public-schoolboy. I’ve got a degree. I’m from a middle-class family in Devon. I’ve got no story.” -Chris Martin
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“I’ve always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you’d want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn’t laugh, you were…
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“My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.” -Emma Bunton
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“My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.” -Robert Griffin III
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“And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.” -Bob Geldof
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“But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.” -Andrea Martin
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“More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – I’ll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.” -Joyce Maynard
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“The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don’t even have breakfast together.” -A. N. Wilson
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“The American people know what’s necessary to get this economy moving again. It’s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.” -Mike Pence
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“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children’s program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children’s portion size, and it wasn’t two burgers, it was…
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“I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.” -Sloane Crosley
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“To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can’t think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.” -Ted Allen
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“I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone’s going to tell you how to do it and why. I’ve always said to other mothers and women when they’ve asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.” -Brooke Burke
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“Although my family – parents and sister – all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.” -Michael Sheen
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“Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.” -Emilio Estevez
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“It’s cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They’ll tell me if I’m doing something stupid!” -Jordin Sparks
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“My family was all born in Sicily and I’m Italian-American. They’re the real thing. They’re authentic Italians, and honestly they’re the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That’s the way I think true Sicilians are.” -Vinny Guadagnino
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“I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.” -Roger Goodell
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“I’m over the moon to be involved in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special. I can’t quite believe it as it’s a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.” -Katherine Jenkins
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“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.” -John le Carre
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“I like playing music because it’s a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can’t feed my family with satisfaction.” -James Hetfield
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“Baseball life is a tough life on the family.” -Nolan Ryan
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“Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It’s an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.” -Curt Schilling
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“You don’t have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.” -Mehmet Oz
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“As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me…
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“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.” -Angie Stone
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“In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.” -Vera Farmiga
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“I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there’s a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a…
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“I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.” -Theodore Bikel
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“My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.” -Stevie Wonder
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“I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.” -David Rockefeller
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“While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.” -Bill…
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“I’m very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family’s long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.” -Shaquille O’Neal
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“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.” -Mike Honda
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“When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.” -Bill Nighy
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“Touring is tough. You’re almost in a haze because you don’t really know where you are half the time: You’re in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you’re onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you’re back on an airplane. It’s very hectic and I couldn’t do it without my family.”…
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“A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.” -Anthony Trollope
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“For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.” -Mark Wahlberg
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“A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.” -Edie Falco
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“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.” -Bradley Cooper
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“When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to…
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“You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.” -Martin Lawrence
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“For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.”…
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“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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“When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.” -Snoop Dogg
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“Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I’ve ever done – by far.” -Gwen Stefani
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“South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out.” -Ice Cube
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“I don’t believe in being mean to anyone. I’m a really peaceful person. That’s something I get from my family.” -Nick Carter
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“The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He’s fighting for a group ethic of some sort.” -C. J. Cherryh
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“I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.” -Kevin Spacey
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“My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.” -Dane Cook
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“I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.” -Jane…
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“I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.” -Mary J. Blige
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“I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.” -Carlos Fuentes
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“Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It’s been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It’s a great town.” -Faith Hill
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“I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.”…
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“I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.” -Christina Applegate
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“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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“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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“My family can always tell when I’m well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.” -Anne Tyler
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“One wants to be together with one’s family. That’s what families are about.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.” -Sidney Altman
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I have my family, my children – I have a lot of outside activities.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“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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“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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“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.” -Melissa Gilbert
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“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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“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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“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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“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.” -Shahrukh Khan
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“The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.” -John Sununu
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“But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing… this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives – relationships and family. To me, it’s always an interesting area to mine. I’m drawn to it.” -Mark Ruffalo
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“The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.” -Sergio Aragones
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“I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.” -Hope Solo
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“I’m lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.” -Haile Gebrselassie
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“A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don’t isolate the family. We don’t make rides that say, ‘Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.’” -Michael Eisner
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“People just don’t laugh when their family is violated, and you don’t shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It’s a funny, primitive instinct.” -Phillip Noyce
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“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.” -Susan Lieberman
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“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.” -Maya Lin
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“I don’t have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.” -Adam Carolla
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“I had no fun. My family was too serious.” -Miuccia Prada
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“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
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt – all this can do more for a child’s well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“It’s a family that’s loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.” -Nicolas Cage
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“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.” -Juliette Binoche
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“The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.” -Danny Boyle
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“Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it’s like you don’t ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it’s kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.” -Sophia Bush
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“Family is becoming more and more important to me.” -Diane Kruger
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“The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.” -Eddie Van Halen
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“I’m overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L’Oreal Paris family. I’m such a fan of L’Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.” -Lea Michele
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“The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.” -Elton John
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“I feel my family’s needs are a priority. I’m not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.” -Susan Sarandon
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“I don’t want to be reincarnated, that’s for sure. When you’ve had rewarding experiences in your life – a loving family, friends – you don’t need additional reassurances that you’re going to do something with a new cast of characters. I’d just as soon pass.” -Lewis Thomas
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“Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.” -Anthony Horowitz
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“Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.” -Ilka Chase
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I’d be a liar if I said I had a normal family.” -Edward Furlong
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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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“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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“I’ve always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I’d put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.” -Emma Roberts
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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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“I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.” -Bjork
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” -Tom Hardy
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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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“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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“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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“When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that’s what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.” -Leighton Meester
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“In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I’m enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.” -Brett Favre
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“Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.” -Monica Lewinsky
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“I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.” -Andre Rieu
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“Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I’ll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.” -Paula Deen
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“What we’ve tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.” -David Plouffe
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“Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.” -Hans-Georg Gadamer
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“Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.” -Rosa DeLauro
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“I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.” -Vin Diesel
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“It’s a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That’s why it’s a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their…
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“My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.” -Nicki Minaj
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“If I’m not writing well, I’m not happy. If I’m not spending enough time with my family, I’m not happy. If I’m not connecting to friends or if I don’t work out enough… You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.” -Harlan Coben
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“A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.” -Saul Alinsky
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“I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.” -Ted Cruz
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“Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.” -Chris Christie
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“My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.” -Dave Obey
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“It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.” -Leon Kass
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“My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There’s something sweet about them.” -Laura Linney
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“My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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“I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we’re all nuts on some level. I think you’ve gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn’t rebel in the traditional sense.”…
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“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood – all those things feel really true to me.” -Jason Reitman
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“It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.” -Michael Pitt
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“I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.” -Venus Williams
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“One’s nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world’s family.” -Paul Harris
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“‘I Know You Care’ is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it’s about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It’s about this idea of losing someone for good.” -Ellie Goulding
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“You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.” -Cory Booker
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“My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.” -Reba McEntire
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“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.” -Twyla Tharp
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