884 private quotes tagged family

“No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.” — Tom Hanks

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“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.” — Thomas Mann

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“I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.” — Tom Hardy

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“Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.” — Heath Ledger

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“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.” — Lewis Thomas

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“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.” — Star Jones

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“We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.” — will.i.am

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“I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.” — Emma Roberts

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“My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.” — Bradley Whitford

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“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.” — will.i.am

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“A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.” — Saul Alinsky

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“There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.” — Gus Van Sant

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“My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I do a lot of writing about my family.” — Katey Sagal

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“It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.” — Nicolas Cage

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“God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.” — Jerry Falwell

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“I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.” — Lewis Thomas

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“I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.” — Susan Sarandon

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“Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.” — Ilka Chase

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