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		The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lamar Odom
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Haley Joel Osment
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Duffy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Bradford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dikembe Mutombo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Queen Rania of Jordan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ted Cruz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Barra
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Milch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tanya Tucker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ingrid Betancourt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jade Jagger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I don't really have girlfriends in movies, if you've noticed. Well, I have a few girlfriends, I just... I stay at home a lot. I'm just not very social. I don't do a lot with them, and I'm very homebound. I'll talk to my family, I talk to Brad... But I don't know, I don't have a lot of friends I talk to. He is really the only person I talk to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angelina Jolie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nicole Beharie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ralph Waite
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Darell Hammond