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I'd like to do more family dramas.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

    Author: Abbe Pierre
   

My family background was deeply Christian.

    Author: Abbe Pierre
   

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

    Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
   

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

    Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
   

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

    Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
   

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

    Author: Adam Weishaupt
   

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

    Author: Adam Weishaupt
   

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

    Author: Adam West
   

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

    Author: Afrika Bambaataa
   

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

    Author: Agnetha Faltskog
   

My family is my strength and my weakness.

    Author: Aishwarya Rai
   

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

    Author: Ajay Naidu
   

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

    Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
   

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

    Author: Akshay Kumar
   

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

    Author: Akshay Kumar
   

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

    Author: Al Roker
   

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

    Author: Al Smith
   

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

    Author: Alan Dundes
   

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

    Author: Alan Dundes
   

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

    Author: Alan Hovhaness
   

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

    Author: Alan Jackson
   

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

    Author: Alan Keyes
   

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

    Author: Alan Shepard
   

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

    Author: Alan Shepard
   

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

    Author: Alan Thicke
   

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

    Author: Alan Thicke
   

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

    Author: Alan Thicke
   

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

    Author: Albert Bandura
    Topics: Family

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

    Author: Alberto Juantorena
   

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

    Author: Albrecht Durer
   

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

    Author: Alessandro Del Piero
    Topics: Sports

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

    Author: Alex Haley
   

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

    Author: Alex Haley
   

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

    Author: Alex Haley
   

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

    Author: Alex Lowe
    Topics: Family

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

    Author: Alex North
   

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

    Author: Alexander Dubcek
   

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

    Author: Alexis Arguello
   

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

    Author: Alexis Korner
   

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.

    Author: Alfred Adler
   

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

    Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
   

But this is called show business, not show family.

    Author: Alice Barrett
   

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.

    Author: Alison Bechdel
   

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

    Author: Allan Sherman
   

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

    Author: Allan Sloan
   

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

    Author: Alonzo Mourning
   

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

    Author: Amber Tamblyn
   

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

    Author: Amiri Baraka
   

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

    Author: Amisha Patel
    Topics: Show Business

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.

    Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
    Topics: Family, Children

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

    Author: Amos Oz
   

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

    Author: Amy Grant
   

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

    Author: Amy Tan
   

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

    Author: Amy Tan
   

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

    Author: Andre Braugher
   

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

    Author: Andre Maurois
    Topics: Family

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.

    Author: Andrea Corr
   

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

    Author: Andrea Corr
   

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

    Author: Andrea Jung
   

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

    Author: Andrea Jung
   

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

    Author: Andrea Jung
   

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

    Author: Andrea Martin
   

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

    Author: Andrei Sakharov
   

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

    Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
    Topics: Family

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

    Author: Andrew Morton
   

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

    Author: Andrew Morton
   

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

    Author: Andrew Morton
   

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

    Author: Andrew Shue
   

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

    Author: Andrew Sullivan
   

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

    Author: Andrew Vachss
   

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

    Author: Andy Hertzfeld
   

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

    Author: Angela Carter
   

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

    Author: Angela Cartwright
   

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

    Author: Anita Baker
   

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

    Author: Anita Desai
   

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

    Author: Anita Desai
   

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

    Author: Anita Diament
   

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

    Author: Anita Diament
   

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

    Author: Ann Robinson
   

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

    Author: Anna Chlumsky
   

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

    Author: Anna Neagle
    Topics: Family

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

    Author: Anna Quindlen
   

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

    Author: Anne Northup
    Topics: Politics

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

    Author: Anne Stevenson
   

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

    Author: Annette Funicello
   

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Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

    Author: Annette Funicello
   

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

    Author: Annie Leibovitz
   

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

    Author: Anthea Turner
   

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

    Author: Anthony Anderson
   

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

    Author: Anthony Edwards
   

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

    Author: Anthony Holden
   

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.

    Author: Anthony Michael Hall
   

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

    Author: Anthony Trollope
   

The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

    Author: Antoine Fuqua
   

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

    Author: Antonia Fraser
   

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

    Author: Antonin Scalia
   

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

    Author: Antonio Tabucchi
   

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

    Author: Anwar Sadat
   

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

    Author: Armstrong Williams
   

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

    Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
   

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

    Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
   

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

    Author: Art Modell
   

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

    Author: Arthur Bremer
   

You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'

    Author: Arthur Godfrey
   

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

    Author: Asa Gray
   

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

    Author: Ashley Judd
   

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

    Author: Ashley Montagu
    Topics: Family

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

    Author: Ashley Olsen
   

You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

    Author: Ashley Scott
   

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

    Author: Atom Egoyan
   

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

    Author: Atom Egoyan
   

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

    Author: Atom Egoyan
   

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

    Author: August Strindberg
   

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

    Author: Augustus Y. Napier
   

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

    Author: Avi Arad
   

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

    Author: B. B. King
   

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

    Author: Barack Obama
    Topics: Stupid

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

    Author: Barbara Bush
   

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

    Author: Barbara Bush
   

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

    Author: Barbara Bush
   

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

    Author: Barbara Bush
    Topics: Success

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

    Author: Barbara Bush
   

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

    Author: Barbara Cook
   

In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.

    Author: Barbara Dale
   

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

    Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
    Topics: Family

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

    Author: Barbara Mandrell
   

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

I didn't have a very religious family.

    Author: Barbara Walters
   

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

    Author: Barbra Streisand
   

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

    Author: Barney Ross
   

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

    Author: Barry Gibb
   

I'm very much a family person.

    Author: Barry Gibb
   

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

    Author: Barry Gibb
    Topics: Family

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

    Author: Barry Goldwater
   

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

    Author: Barry Levinson
   

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

    Author: Barry Sanders
   

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

    Author: Beau Bridges
   

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

    Author: Beau Bridges
   

I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.

    Author: Ben Jackson
   

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

    Author: Ben Kingsley
   

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

    Author: Benjamin Bratt
   

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

    Author: Benjamin Bratt
   

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

    Author: Benjamin Spock
   

Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

    Author: Benny Green
   

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.

    Author: Bernard Cornwell
   

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

    Author: Bernard Meltzer
   

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

    Author: Bernice Weissbourd
   

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

    Author: Bernice Weissbourd
   

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

    Author: Bernice Weissbourd
   

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

    Author: Bertrand Russell
   

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

    Author: Betty Hill
   

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.

    Author: Bill James
    Topics: Sports

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.

    Author: Bill Kreutzmann
   

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

    Author: Bill Owens
    Topics: Family

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

    Author: Bill Pascrell
   

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

    Author: Bill Richardson
   

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

    Author: Bill Scott
   

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

    Author: Bill Toomey
   

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

    Author: Bill Toomey
   

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

    Author: Bill Toomey
   

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

    Author: Billy Bob Thornton
   

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

    Author: Billy Joel
   

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

    Author: Billy Sherwood
   

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

    Author: Birch Bayh
   

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

    Author: Birch Bayh
   

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

    Author: Bjork
   

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

    Author: Blake Lively
   

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

    Author: Bo Bennett
    Topics: Family

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

    Author: Bo Gritz
   

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

    Author: Bob Balaban
   

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

    Author: Bob Balaban
   

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

    Author: Bob Balaban
   

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

    Author: Bob Balaban
   

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

    Author: Bob Cousy
   

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

    Author: Bob Ehrlich
    Topics: Family

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

    Author: Bob Geldof
    Topics: Family

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

    Author: Bob Geldof
   

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

    Author: Bob Saget
   

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

    Author: Bob Seger
   

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

    Author: Bob Taft
   

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

    Author: Bob Taft
   

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

    Author: Bobby Darin
   

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