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Family Quotes
"Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products."
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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people."
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"I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me."
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"My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him."
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"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."
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"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better."
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"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."
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"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do."
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"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
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"I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me."
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"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
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"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."
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"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
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"Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much."
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"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."
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"The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother."
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"A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete."
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"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
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"My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing."
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"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could."
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"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
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"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
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"Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that."
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"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind."
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"When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94."
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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
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"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
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