884 private quotes tagged family

“I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.” — Edward Furlong

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“Family is becoming more and more important to me.” — Diane Kruger

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“The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.” — Danny Boyle

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“The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.” — Anthony Horowitz

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“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.” — Rupert Murdoch

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“I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.” — Rupert Murdoch

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“I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.” — Robin Gibb

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“The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.” — Lea Michele

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“I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.” — Sophia Bush

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“I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.” — Juliette Binoche

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“You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.” — John Sununu

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“Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.” — Melissa Gilbert

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“When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.” — George Saunders

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“My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.” — Anne Tyler

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“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.” — Al Sharpton

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“Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.” — Edward Norton

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“One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.” — Russell Crowe

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