Family Quotes
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Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you can't do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I'd be home alone and think, 'Well, something good happened at work,' but it's nicer to share it with people you love.
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Looks like the whole music touring industry is on hold for a little while. I’m trying to stay positive and enjoy the time off with my family and do a lot of writing. So far we’re all fine and I’ll keep you updated on…
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I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
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I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
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Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
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My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
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The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
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As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.
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I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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 grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
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Along the way, we have had some wonderful adventures and have met thousands of dedicated fans - indeed, many of them feel like family to us now.
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Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.
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I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
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In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
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There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
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I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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Everybody sung in my family.
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I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
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The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.
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As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
