- Father
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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
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guru's family gave me a piece of his ashes. I saw the gold box of ashes that his father had when we had the memorial service. He had a nice giant gold box that had his name on it. It was really nice. I know all the family members had ashes that they all spread and took on their own. So I said lemme ask is it cool if I have some.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, for 'Family & Loyalty' I wanted Drake on the track but he was about to go on tour for his Scorpion album, so timewise it wasn't going to work.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guru died tragically and there were so many rumors about how he went out. I got to see him in the hospital right before he passed, and one of the last things I said to him before I walked out of the room was that I was going to make sure that his family was straight.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved my family down to Miami to stay with my father-in-law, Jack, for a while. Best move I ever made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
- Family History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still hungry. I'm still striving... You have to understand: my mum has worked hard to look after her children, but we have always been poor; we have always been at rock bottom. I want to change my family history forever.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's complicated at family level, that can stop you from being at ease in your job.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was always together. Whenever Kakaji needed something or wanted to discuss some issue, he would always bring it up with us. Certain things happened that brought us closer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
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- Nov 07, 2020