- Friends And Family
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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
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!
- Dear Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Ronson was a dear friend through family and through growing up in New York, being in that scene, and Mark came to a show and really liked it and asked us to join his record label Allido records, or 'all I do' records, and that was sort of a development deal.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned is that it's very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020