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- Nov 07, 2020
American Family Quotes
Home cooking, hard choices, and the households behind the headlines.
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a father with a job and stay-at-home mom who took care of the kids.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.
- Family Structure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.
- Action Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020