My Family Quotes - Page 25

• I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

  Akshay Kumar

  Blessing, Years, Thank God

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

  Robin Yount

  Brother, Business, Taken

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• But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

  Georg Solti

  Country, Home, Destiny

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

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• Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

  Paul Tsongas

  Faith, Adversity, Commitment

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• Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

  Clifford Stoll

  Friends, People, Community

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• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  Armstrong Williams

  Morning, Jobs, Father

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• All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Marriage, Over It, Get Over

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• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Forest Whitaker

  Movie, Kids, Car

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

  Grete Waitz

  Peace, Hypnosis, Media

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• As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Relationship, Suffering, Different

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• You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Kids, Want, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.

  Mel White

  Christian, Brother, Family And Friends

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• I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

  Bob Balaban

  Lakes, Born, Shore

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Ambition, Thinking

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• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  Jack Huston

  Writing, Loving Life, Blood

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• I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing things to my family; I was announcing it to the world. Of course, if the play had been a flop, only my family would have known.

  Mart Crowley

  Writing, Play, Agendas

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• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

  Jennifer Lee

  Turkeys, Childhood, Technique

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• During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my work and my family." Now, let me tell you why I believe they see it that way. Because when they look around the room, they see the women who are going to be in their lives, the choices they will have for a spouse. And they realize that these women are educated, ambitious, and have every intention of having careers of their own.

  Vicki Donlan

  Business, Work, Believe

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• Governor Romney says he's against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine... Mr. Romney, my family is just as real as yours.

  Zach Wahls

  Mother, Sex, Children

  Zach Wahls' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.yahoo.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  Barbara Cook

  Thinking, Firsts, First Time

  "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.

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• I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

  Sheridan Smith

  Earth, Slap, Stations

  "Sheridan Smith struggles with mounting acclaim over Cilla portrayal" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

  Michael J. Fox

  Opportunity, Love Is, I Love My Family

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• I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

  Dwight Henry

  Kids, Worry, Right Now

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• I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

  Danny Dyer

  Good Upbringing, Upbringing

  "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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• You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

  Julius Erving

  Burden, Family Friends, Aspect

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