Family Quotes
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I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.
Karishma Tanna
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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell
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The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry … is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.
Martin Gardner
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My family were really poor.
Joe Gilgun
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I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela
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My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
Carol W. Greider
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In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.
Eileen Myles
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There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.
Jeffrey Tambor
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You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.
Pedro Martinez
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I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.
Demetri Martin
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I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
Chris Gibson
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To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).
Hal Elrod
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Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.
David Mixner
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I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.
Melissa Ordway
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We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.
James McBride
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Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
Kathryn Harrison
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You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
Birch Bayh
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My decision has been that anyone who breaks the law will be prosecuted. If you're a parent or you're a single person or you happen to have a family, if you cross between the ports of entry, we will refer you for prosecution. You've broken U.S. law.
Kirstjen Nielsen
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My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.
Emma Bunton Spice Girls
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Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.
Len Goodman
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I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.
Donna Karan
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I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.
Johnny Vegas
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I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
Azim Premji
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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser