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Family Quotes
"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it."
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"A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces."
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"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."
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"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."
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"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
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"Actors are one family over the entire world."
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"We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami."
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"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."
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"The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father."
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"Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant."
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"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."
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"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
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"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
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"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."
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"It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations."
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"When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence."
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"Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud."
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"I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed."
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"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."
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"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
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"Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."
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"We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't."
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