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Family Quotes
"People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors."
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"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
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"Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs."
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"Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family."
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."
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"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."
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"Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager."
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"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."
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"Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models."
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"You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family."
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"There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!"
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"Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love."
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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
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"Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?"
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"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred."
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"Charlie and I were never blessed with children."
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"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease."
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"My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She knows and even though she would not destroy a tissue sample or love someone who is not her Match, she still loves us, even though we have done those things."
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"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
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"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
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"When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them."
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"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
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"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor."
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"But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead."
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