My Family Quotes - Page 15

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  Karl Malone

  Careers, Support, Would Be

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• I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

  Mark Hamill

  Home, Actors, World

  "Mark Hamill can't escape 'Star Wars' spotlight". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Princess, School, Years

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

  Erin Moran

  Abuse, Physical Abuse

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• I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.

  Selena

  Home, Lame, Evening

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• Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Stupid, Years

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• No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

  Andrea Jung

  Blood, Marketing, Retail

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• I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

  Mike Quade

  Media, Office, People

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• I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Would Be

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• Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

  George Washington

  Father, Years, Four

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Hockey, Rumor

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• Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

  Novak Djokovic

  Tennis

  "Novak & Ana". Interview with Emma John, Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

  Jimmy Connors

  Years, Important, Lasts

  Jimmy Connors (2013). “The Outsider: My Autobiography”, p.364, Random House

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• I know for my family, the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Home, People, Information

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. June 18.

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• It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Schizophrenia, Chickens

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• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

  Philip Pullman

  Zimbabwe, Australia, England

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• I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

  Karlie Kloss

  Team, Support, Lucky

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• I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

  Kim Wilde

  Space, Giving, Would Be

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• All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.

  LeBron James

  Real, People, Goal

  "In Defense of LeBron James" By Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

  LeBron James

  Mean, Spoiled, Court

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• I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

  LeBron James

  Team, Thinking, Cleveland

  "LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland" by LeBron James, www.si.com. July 11, 2014.

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• I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

  Kevin Durant

  Mvp, Humbling, Stills

  Kevin Durant's MVP speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

  Christina Applegate

  Christmas, Love Is, Light

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• Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

  Jamie Moyer

  Mom, Couple, Dad

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