Family Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
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Everybody sung in my family.
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Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
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In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
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I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
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We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.
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I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
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They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you're making a family driven show or otherwise. But I do realize it's very sad to me. This is the first film Oz The Great that I've done that's not R rated. It's a really weird connection.
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With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
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I'm blessed to have a family that always supported me being me.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
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If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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In the early '80s, my family vacationed to the United States.
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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.
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Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
