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Family Quotes
"Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility."
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"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
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"Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children."
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"When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place."
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
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"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."
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"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
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"I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out."
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"Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now."
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"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."
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"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
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"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."
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"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."
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"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers."
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"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."
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"I remembered my mother's speech at my wedding. "In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it." Who will believe my pain? Who will be present for it?"
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"My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor."
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"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."
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"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."
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"My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance."
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"We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure."
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"Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together."
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"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers."
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"I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life."
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"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential."
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