Our Family Quotes - Page 12

• I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

  Eva Longoria

  Mother, Powerful, Volunteer

  "More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

  Jessica Alba

  Husband, Unconditional Love, Wife

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Appreciation, Girlfriend, Eye

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

  Glen Hansard

  People, Different, Stuff

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

  Barry Manilow

  Old Friends, Done, Saved

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

  Julia Stone

  Dad, Joy, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

  Geena Davis

  Cute, Clothes, Ideas

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• You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

  Juliette Binoche

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Juliette Binoche in Ann Arbor starring in 'Antigone'". Interview with John Monaghan, www.usatoday.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  Brooke Burke

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Nests, Capable

  "INSURGENT Interview: Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, and Octavia Spencer". Press conference, collider.com. March 20, 2015.

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• You get married, you start having responsibilities. It's really hard if your dream hasn't caught some traction by the time you're in your mid-to-late 20s. You want to provide for your family. I would say, the majority of people fall in that boat. They want to do something, but life gets in the way. And they're like "well, I'm going to get this job, and have safety and security."

  Jeremy Coon

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

  Omar Zuniga

  Culture, Way, Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I won't say my nutrition is perfect. If I'm at a restaurant and there's fresh pasta on the menu, I'm going to order it. At home, though, I avoid grains and do a lot of the cooking to control what our family eats.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Home, Order, Perfect

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis in Malibu, California, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 1, 2014.

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• In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Doors, People

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Loved Ones, Relationship With God, Ceremony

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• When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.

  Laura Bush

  Cancer, Heart, Exercise

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

  David McCullough

  Growing Up, Moving, Book

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I always like to tell people who are interested in the business, and the acquired wisdom I give my children, is to stay out of show business. There are better ways to lead your life. You might end up being happier and spend more time with your family and make more money if you don't work in the film business.

  Jay Cassidy

  Children, People, Giving

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Years, Play

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

  Ben Stein

  Home, Nursing, Golf

  Ben Stein (1998). “Tommy & Me: The Making of a Dad”, Simon & Schuster

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• Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.

  Thomas Keller

  Important, Tables, Forget

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.

  Laurence Yep

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Years, Land

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