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"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on."

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on."

Brett Favre, American Athlete

Family, Time, Thought, Kids

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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Elizabeth II, British Royalty

Family, Life, Service

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"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything."

"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Family, Father, Childhood, Fact

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"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."

"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."

David Antin, American Poet

Family, Children, Saying, Singing

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"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."

"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Family, Politics, Religion, Planning

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"I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling."

"I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling."

Carre Otis, American Model

Family, Money, Work, Options

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"My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations."

"My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations."

Pierre Loti, French Writer

Family, Sister, Brother, Generations

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"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."

"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."

Agnes Smedley, American Journalist

Family, Mother, Father, Affection

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"Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table."

"Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table."

James Levine, American Musician

Family, Fathers, Needs

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"Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family."

"Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family."

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

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"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."

"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

Family, God, Friends, Song

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"Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me."

"Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me."

LaToya London, American Musician

Family, Being, Competition

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"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

Marie Curie, Polish Scientist

Family, Life, Women, Career

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"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."

"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

Family, Work, Being

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"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

Garrison Keillor, American Writer

Family, Children, Eyes, Nothing

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"The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it."

"The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it."

B. B. King, American Musician

Family, People, May

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"You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil."

"You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil."

Louis Farrakhan, American Activist

Family, Sister, Brother, Evil

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"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."

"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

Family, People, Hope

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"Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom."

"Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom."

Bob Beauprez, American Politician

Family, Children, Classroom, Commonsense, Focus

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"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children."

"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children."

John Sculley, American Businessman

Family, Abuse, Children, Pregnancy

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"The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!"

"The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!"

Christopher Knight, American Actor

Family, Mother, Action, May

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"We have freedoms and boundaries; we just have a great family life."

"We have freedoms and boundaries; we just have a great family life."

Kelly Preston, American Actress

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"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."

"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

Family, Life, Love

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"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know."

"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Family, Father, Nonsense, Parents, Theatre

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"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."

"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."

Peter De Vries, American Novelist

Family, Father, Hate, Television

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"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

Seth Low, American Educator

Family, Brotherhood, Dependence, Man, Obligation

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"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives."

"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives."

Richard M. Daley, American Politician

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"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."

Larry Niven, American Writer

Family, Childhood, Disease, Population

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"Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives."

"Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives."

Kim Weston, American Photographer

Family, Dad, Work, Thought, Growingup

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"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day."

"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day."

Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

Family, Mother, Day, Today

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"I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college."

"I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college."

Mark Kennedy, American Politician

Family, College, First

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"After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream."

"After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream."

Ellen Tauscher, American Politician

Family, Business, Dream

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"I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives."

"I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Family, Stability

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"I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood."

"I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood."

Barbet Schroeder, French Director

Family, Childhood, Country

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"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."

"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."

Willie Aames, American Actor

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"I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate."

"I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate."

Sue Kelly, American Politician

Family, Economy

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"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Family, Mother, Father, Parents

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"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

Barbara Ehrenreich, American Writer

Family, Love, Generosity, Hate

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"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive."

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive."

Warren Farrell, American Writer

Family, Women, Balance, Being

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"I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it."

"I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it."

Christina Applegate, American Actress

Family, Love, Music, Being

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

Wilbur Wright, American Inventor

Family, Brother, Man, Years

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"Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England."

"Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England."

Tony Scott, British Director

Family, Day, England, Talk

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"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."

"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."

Gordon Brown, British Politician

Family, Father, Nothing

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"I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing."

"I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing."

Gil Gerard, American Actor

Family, Being, Golf, Project

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"As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation."

"As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation."

Dennis Cardoza, American Politician

Family, Children, Nation, Problems

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"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books."

"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books."

Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

Family, Mother, Brother, Books

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"I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play."

"I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play."

Paula Zahn, American Journalist

Family, Mother, Job, Play

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"Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze."

"Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Family, Alcohol, Culture, Humor

33

"My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant."

"My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

Family, Mother, Church

33

"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

Family, Effect, Fortune, Mind

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