- Beautiful Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. In the United States, you can lose an election where you can disagree with our leaders or our government, and you won't lose your business; you won't lose your family, and you won't lose your freedom.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Ice Cube was so tight. He's cool, and I really like how he does family stuff. My guy friends couldn't believe I was chillin' with him. Dudes love Ice Cube.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don't regret a single minute of it. I love to act!
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
- Family Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
- Nov 07, 2020