884 private quotes tagged family

“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.” — Ang Lee

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“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.” — Sting

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“My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.” — Harlan Coben

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“Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.” — Jennifer Granholm

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“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.” — Julie Andrews

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“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.” — Susannah York

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“I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.” — Paul Lynde

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“I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.” — Shaun White

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“The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.” — Suze Orman

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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.” — H. Rap Brown

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“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.” — Mario Batali

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“Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.” — Novalis

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“I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.” — Sienna Miller

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“You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.” — Willa Cather

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“I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.” — Francesca Annis

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“I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.” — Shakira

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“I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.” — Jeff Bingaman

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“I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.” — Herman Cain

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