My Family Quotes - Page 20

• I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

  Bill James

  Baseball, Mind, I Can

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• My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

  Georgina Chapman

  Army, Grandfather, India

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• My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

  George Andrew Olah

  Father, Knowledge, Lawyer

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• I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

  Dana Spiotta

  Book, Mean, Kids

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• I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.

  Heidi Julavits

  Sleep, Night, People

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• My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

  Cody Linley

  Two, House, Rooms

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• I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

  Christine Ebersole

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

  Bill de Blasio

  Father, Cancer, Media

  "Bill De Blasio Reveals His Father Committed Suicide During Fight With Terminal Cancer" By Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.

  Jeff Daniels

  Kids, Michigan, Has Beens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

  Sarah Palin

  Thinking, People, Done

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• It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

  Paris Hilton

  Thinking, Paris, People

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• In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

  Holly Near

  Community, Stories, World

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• My family vacations were softball tournaments.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Vacation, Tournaments

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• My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Encouragement, Family And Friends, Christ

  Bethany Hamilton (2012). “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family and Fighting to Get Back on the Board”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

  Rudy Galindo

  Gay, Media, Judging

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• My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.

  Dante Hall

  Nice, Sunday, Player

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• I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

  Jason O'Mara

  Years, Important, Three

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• My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

  Rima Fakih

  Melting, Wonderful, Pot

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• Hockey was such a part of my life, as well as my family’s, that I knew we were all going to miss it.  For the first few weeks my son was in tears sobbing, ‘I miss you being a Red Wing daddy.’  I didn’t know what to say so we just cried together.  Nobody prepares you for that kind of stuff.

  Kris Draper

  Hockey, Son, Wings

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• My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

  David Hasselhoff

  Snow, Christmas Wishes, Curls

  "David Hasselhoff, ‘The Christmas Consultant’ Star, Reminisces About Childhood Holidays" By Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me.

  Sunny Leone

  Daughter, Years, Pet

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• After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

  Joseph Barbera

  Draws

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.

  Prince William

  Jobs, Support, Family And Friends

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• I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Brother, Artist, Two

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