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Quotations on Family 1423 Quotes Found This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. The family is the school of duties - founded on love. I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch. I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra. When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family. My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that. I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries. Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities. I am the odd man out in the family. I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl. You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family. I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland. Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me. After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
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