884 private quotes tagged family

“I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.” — Jackie Chan

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“The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.” — Tom Morello

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“Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.” — Queen Elizabeth II

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“Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.” — Eddie Vedder

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“A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.” — Joe DiMaggio

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“The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.” — Tony Dorsett

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“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.” — Barry Gibb

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“For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.” — Emma Thompson

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“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.” — Hayden Fry

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

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“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.” — Carlos Fuentes

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“We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.” — Nicole Kidman

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“I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?” — Curt Schilling

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“Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.” — Joe Baca

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“Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?” — Garrett Hardin

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“I grew up in a Navy family.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.” — Adam Sandler

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