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		DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
	
	  Harriet Ann Jacobs Harriet Ann Jacobs
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		As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
	
	  Brian J. White Brian J. White
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		I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
	
	  Valerie Plame Valerie Plame
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		Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.
	
	  P. J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke
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		I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.
	
	  Lenny Abrahamson Lenny Abrahamson
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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.
	
	  Caitlyn Jenner Caitlyn Jenner
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		When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
	
	  Christopher Gist Christopher Gist
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		Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
	
	  Victor LaValle Victor LaValle
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		By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
	
	  Ed Begley, Jr. Ed Begley, Jr.
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		I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
	
	  Jaclyn Smith Jaclyn Smith
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		A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.
	
	  Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale
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		We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
	
	  Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand