884 private quotes tagged family

“I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.” — Cindy Crawford

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“I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.” — Rob Lowe

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“I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.” — Tony Campolo

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“The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.” — Tony Campolo

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“Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.” — Rod Stewart

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“I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire

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“Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'” — Tony Campolo

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“I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.” — Anna Quindlen

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“I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.” — Gary Oldman

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“It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Everybody sung in my family.” — Rod Stewart

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“Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.” — William Hague

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“Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.” — Katherine Heigl

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“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.” — Meryl Streep

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“A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.” — Ryan Gosling

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“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.” — Imelda Marcos

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“I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.” — Tim Roth

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“My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.” — Gwen Stefani

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