My Family Quotes - Page 25

• I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  New York, Growing Up, Father

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• My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

  Foxy Brown

  Believe, Eight, Differences

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• Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
  Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us?
  Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas,
  Cut off from my family I leave my native land.
  Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison,
  With heated heart arouse all women's spirits.
  Alas, this delicate kerchief here
  Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.

  Qiu Jin

  Heart, Dark, Cutting

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• My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

  Sara Paxton

  Children, Hollywood, Actors

  "Sara Paxton on The Innkeepers, Shark Night 3-D and Julia Roberts Marathons". Interview with Julie Miller, June 23, 2011.

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• My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

  James Roday

  Father, Texas, Mexican

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

  Jack Osbourne

  Grateful, Eye, Support

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  Jack Irons

  Musician, Jam, Pearls

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• Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

  Matt Damon

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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• Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

  Georg Solti

  Religious, Practice, Rebel

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

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• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Kieran Culkin

  Divorce, Hollywood, Blame

  "The Young And `The Mighty' / Youthful stars Culkin and Henson are veterans of showbiz". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 11, 1998.

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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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• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Needs, Worst

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• My family is very traditional, Catholic.

  Paz Vega

  Catholic, Traditional

  "Spanglish’ Actress’ Talent Translates Well". Interview with Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. December 12, 2004.

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• I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

  Jason Behr

  Cities, People, Colorado

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• Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Believe, Layers, Sideways

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.20, Serpent's Tail

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• None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.

  Christine Maggiore

  Medicine, Happened, Knows

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• In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.
  'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.

  Donald Driver

  Selfish, Winning, Years

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• In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But I would like for you young brethren especially to know that all that has happened to me in my chosen profession is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the truly important things in my life. The testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ that I have, along with my wife and my family, are my most important possessions.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Dream, Jesus

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• I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, War, Scared

  "George H. W. Bush on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Impact, Law

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• Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.

  Richard Griffiths

  Past, People, Upset

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• I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

  Carrot Top

  Home, School, Class

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• I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Distance, Thinking

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• Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

  Michael C. Hall

  Character, Gay, Thinking

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• I was never raised to think that I was pretty. It's not that I was raised to think I was unattractive, but it was just never something that was pointed out to me by my family. They would point out personality traits — 'our daughter is really quirky' — versus what I look like, because inevitably, looks go, so it makes no difference.

  Mila Kunis

  Daughter, Thinking, Differences

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