My Family Quotes - Page 31

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Strong, Intellectual, Identity

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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dog, Brother, Guitar

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• I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

  Devon Aoki

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• My family were from Jamaica.

  Diane Abbott

  Jamaica

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• I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

  Dianna Agron

  Teaching, School, College

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• I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

  Dorothy Allison

  Sports, Thinking, Understanding

  San Francisco Focus, www.imdb.com. December 23, 1996.

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• When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

  Tyson Chandler

  Grandparent, Relax, Members

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• As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

  Julian Castro

  Blessing, Opportunity, Usa

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• My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

  Julian Castro

  Journey, America, Special

  FaceBook post by Julian Castro from Sep 05, 2012

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• I want to spend more time with my family.

  Kenny Chesney

  Want, More Time

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• My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

  Lacey Chabert

  Dad, Really Short, Used

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

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• I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

  Ricky Jay

  Guy, Grandfather, Friendly

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

  Lynn Collins

  Religious, New York, Texas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

  Nick Carter

  Funeral, Complicated, My Sister

  "Nick Carter Blames Family's "Complicated Dynamic" for Missing Sister Leslie Carter's Funeral" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Heart, Thinking, Community

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

  Steven Chu

  Raison D'etre

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Song, Dad

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I love being around my family.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Love Is

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• My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Cooking, Recipes, Cuisine

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• I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

  Michelle Dockery

  Past, Class, People

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

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• My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

  Peter Diamandis

  Father, Islands, Doctors

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

  Peter Dinklage

  Animal, Pet, Want

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

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• Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

  Torrey DeVitto

  People, Advice, Here And There

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

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• When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

  Anita Desai

  Self, Conscious, Share

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

  Christopher Darden

  Selfish, Trials, Realizing

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