Family Quotes
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.
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I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
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I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.
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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.
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You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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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.
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I take 'signs' in my life as seriously as advice from family and friends or proven facts. The universe speaks through events, y'all!
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Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
