Our Family Quotes - Page 35

• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Tony Visconti

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

  Connie Sellecca

  Blessed, Eye, Opportunity

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• Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

  George Takei

  Country, Father, Blood

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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• And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

  Ashley Judd

  Christmas, Piano, People

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• I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

  Lance Armstrong

  School, Kids, Weather

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

  Augustus Napier

  Love, Advice, Empathy

  Augustus Napier, Carl A. Whitaker (1978). “The Family Crucible”, Harpercollins

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• When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

  David Deida

  Love, Family, Art

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• In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Powerful, Mean, Apologizing

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Strong, Race, Black

  "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Choices, Parent, Firsts

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• I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

  Brenda Song

  Mom, Cancer, Awareness

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• I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Lucky, Looks

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• There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Tv Shows, Comfort, Degrees

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks BAD MILO!, the Adorable Puppet, Her First Reaction to the Script, COMMUNITY, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2, and More". Interview, collider.com. October 1, 2013.

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• As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fun, Way In Life, Adults

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• Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

  Tracey Gold

  Husband, Taken, Gone

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• Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Beautiful, Beach, Community

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

  Cyndi Lauper

  Taken, Rights, Family And Friends

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• I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

  Kelly Reilly

  Mother, Jobs, Hate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You become an artist to upset your family.

  Gunter Brus

  Artist, Upset

  "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.

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• Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Believe, Democracy

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• What they are planning for us; sex, religion, money in the New World Order. Which is more corrupt? The liberal media or the multi-national corporations? Why truly big money wants your children to try drugs, even while they campaign to discourage these evils. How the brilliant scientists have come up with the proven methods to destroy your family. All you have to do is let your guard down.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Sex, Children, Media

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• We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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• If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

  Roddy Doyle

  People, Example, Lucky

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• I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cute, Home, America

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