My Family Quotes - Page 35

• My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  People

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• Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

  Dennis Kucinich

  "This Conversation With You is a Meditation". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.

  John Kasich

  Feel Better, Doctors, Giving

  "Interview with Ohio Governor John Kasich". "The John King, USA Show", realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother MJ, who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Girl, Grandmother, People

  "Khloe Kardashian Talks Body Confidence and Keeping Things Sexy with Lamar". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Kids, Family And Friends

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• People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

  Stana Katic

  People, Canada, Study

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• My family gave me the best in education.

  William Standish Knowles

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• When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

  Jenny Lawson

  Texas, Parent, Goes On

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• I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Son, Guitar, Play

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

  Kurt Masur

  People, Guy, Musician

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• My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

  Tom Morello

  Father, Parent, Kenya

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, College, Parent

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

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• I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

  Connie Nielsen

  Things In Life, Trying, Would Be

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Girlfriend, Forever, My Sister

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

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• My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Ease, Balanced

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

  Tea Obreht

  Egypt

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

  Danny Pudi

  Thinking, Catholic, Able

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

  Marisha Pessl

  Cocktails, Few Words, Napkins

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• Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

  Ali Landry

  Fall, Careers, Giving

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• I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

  Brian Littrell

  Important, Boxes, Just Kids

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• My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

  Ana Ortiz

  Mother, School, Supportive

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• Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Responsibility, Parent, Blame

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• My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

  Missi Pyle

  Theatre, Television, Film

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• My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

  Missi Pyle

  Religious, Southern, Baptists

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Bare Star Missi Pyle". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. January 11, 2013.

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