Dave Van Ronk Quotes
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.
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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.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
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At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.
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I began … to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.
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If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
