My Family Quotes - Page 29

• But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

  Betty Ford

  Recovery, Years, Understanding

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• I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Wife, Computer

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• In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

  Ronnie Wood

  Bigs

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

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• It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Attention, Actresses, Wonder

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• I need to work to support my family.

  Tori Spelling

  Support, Needs

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• My family lives a pretty normal life.

  Darius Rucker

  Normal, Normal Life, Family Life

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

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• I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

  Helen Hunt

  Taken, Stories, Whispering

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• In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Family, Thinking, Particular

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• My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Family, Dream, Fashion

  Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

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• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  Karl Rove

  Family, Writing, Comfortable

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• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  Victoria Justice

  Family, Successful, Numbers

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• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Family, Children, Activity

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  World, Tvs, Movie Business

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• The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Summer, Jobs, School

  "Get To Know Giada". Interview with Alice Park, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  Kate Smith

  Family, Giving Up, Goes On

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• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  Ariel Gore

  Christian, Positive Thinking, Hands

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• My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mean, Focus, Way

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• I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

  Jay Baruchel

  Happiness, Acting, Way

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• My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Happiness, Grateful, Routes

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• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Protect, Protect My Family

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

  Bernard Arnault

  Entrepreneur, Childhood, France

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

  Mark Batterson

  Email, Helping, Help Me

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, London

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

  Sara Bareilles

  Emotional, Tears, Our Family

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

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