My Family Quotes - Page 17

• I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

  Andrew Shue

  Soccer, Teacher, Talking

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• I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Sports, Fun

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• My family went on a cruise, and I got a terrible haircut. FYI: Never get your hair cut on a cruise. And I had, like, this blonde curly 'fro, and I walked into the gym the first day back in seventh grade and everyone was staring at me, and for some reason I thought, I know what I need to do! And I just started sprinting from one end of the gym to the other, and I thought it was hilarious. But nobody else at that age really did. It was genuinely weird

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Cutting, Hair

  "Jennifer Lawrence Relives Awful Haircut For Vogue", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

  Deborah Pryce

  Mother, Growing Up, Domestic Violence

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• In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

  Akira Mori

  Family, Pace, Debate

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• I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it's nice that I can live this way.

  Ivana Trump

  Life, Family, Work

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• I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Growing Up, War, Kids

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• I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

  Bob Seger

  Motorcycle, Love My Family, Aspect

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

  Amy Tan

  Blood, Chinese, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

  Frank Iero

  Years, Six, Multiple Sclerosis

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• Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

  Stan Smith

  Country, Trying, Hey

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• What's important is that my family and I are all good.

  Solange Knowles

  Important, What's Important

  "Solange speaks on Jay Z fight: 'My family and I are all good'" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2014.

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Firsts, Lawyer, Prison

  "Iran Awakening - An Interview With Shirin Ebadi". Interview with Brian Shott, news.newamericamedia.org. May 20, 2006.

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• I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

  Warren Buffett

  Order, Family And Friends, Needs

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

  Kaka

  Jesus, Car, Important

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• I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

  John Marston

  Brother, People, Ransom

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• I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

  Florence Nightingale

  Helping, No Sympathy, I Can

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• My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

  Julie Christie

  Children, Tea, India

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• The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

  Damon Albarn

  Make Me Happy

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• Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Football, Boat, Retiring

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

  Neal Shusterman

  Running, Morning, Parent

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• And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

  Warren Farrell

  Europe, Issues, People

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• I’ve always tried to be independent. It’s just my personality. I’ve always been the type to motivate the camp. I’ve always wanted to be the fuel for something—for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I’m doing.

  Rita Ora

  Independent, Helping Someone, Personality

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