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		In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.
	
	  Patrick Pichette Patrick Pichette
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		When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
	
	  Sean Penn Sean Penn
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		I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.
	
	  Lidia Bastianich Lidia Bastianich
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		I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
	
	  Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge
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		Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
	
	  Willard Scott Willard Scott
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		The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This  turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
	
	  Mother Teresa Mother Teresa
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		The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had arrived at as evil, but that was because he was in the unfortunate position of having a past to compare them with. I, who had practically no past, and whose family had never fallen from glory for the reason that it had had no glory to fall from, thought the times wholly delightful; and anyhow I rather liked camphor.
	
	  Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim
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		It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
	
	  Elizabeth Edwards Elizabeth Edwards
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		My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
	
	  Adora Svitak Adora Svitak
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		We're a really close family. And actually, we see each other and speak on the phone all the time... the odd Sunday lunch, or pop in for coffee or something like that.
	
	  James William Middleton James William Middleton
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		I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.
	
	  Sarah Palin Sarah Palin
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		Family is always first.
	
	  Nick Cannon Nick Cannon
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		When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
	
	  Sofia Villani Scicolone Sofia Villani Scicolone
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		It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
	
	  Adam Dunn Adam Dunn
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		I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.
	
	  Terence Lewis Terence Lewis
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		My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
	
	  Vinny Guadagnino Vinny Guadagnino
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		It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.
	
	  Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat
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		SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.
	
	  Ethan Slater Ethan Slater