My Family Quotes - Page 6

• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

  Billy Corgan

  Class, Middle, Backgrounds

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

  Andrea Corr

  Degrees, Needs, World

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• Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Hollywood, Backdrop, Knows

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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Emotion

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

  Miley Cyrus

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

  "Miley Cyrus Plans to Write Memoir". Disney Book Group Statement, www.reuters.com. April 23, 2008.

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• Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

  Etgar Keret

  Men, Wind, Weather

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• If you earn my friendship, you are my family and I'll do anything for you.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Sound

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• It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Opportunity, Air

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• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Roots, Slave Ships, Envy

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• My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Way, Sense Of Humor

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• I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

  Robin Gibb

  Tragedy, Bees, Kind

  "Report: Robin Gibb was making 'bucket list' before falling into coma" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reality, House, Parent

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• My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Exercise

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

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• My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Uncles, Father, Islands

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• I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.

  Ariana Grande

  Cheer, Stress, School

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• My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Italian, Thinking

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  John Oliver

  Sound, Vowels, London

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• No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

  Tom Hanks

  Taken, House, Way

  "The house that Tom Hanks built" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2001.

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• My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

  Ben Harper

  California, Stores, Folks

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  Naomie Harris

  Real, Streets, Persons

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• My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

  Steve Harvey

  Father, Care, Want

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

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