“Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].” WellsKindMeanPersonsValuesGivenTermResponsibilityHavensChangedCreatingMy FriendsMy FamilyPrioritiesPresidencyPersonal ResponsibilityUniversalityReinvention Author:George W. Bush
“I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.” IfsKindPersonsCarePoliticalFashionMy FamilyShoesMy FavoriteDon't CareStatementsI Don't CareTapeBohemianFashion Statement Author:Erykah Badu
“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.” IfsKindStoriesShowsBigsWould BeSidesDealsSingingRainMy FamilyTownsWestCaughtShow BusinessBig DealWest SideVcrWest Side StorySinging In The Rain Author:Marisa Tomei
“If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.” IfsKnowsKindBigsWould BeFilmFeltWorryDirectMy FamilyStudiosSecureHopefullyIf I Could Author:Dave Bautista
“I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.” FeelsKindPersonsMadeHappensDiesLostBrotherMy FamilyEdgesMy Brother Author:Queen Latifah
“My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.” WayWritingKindBigsYoungTurnsMy FamilyTalesFairyFairy Tale Author:Margaret Atwood
“I'm a rapper but I don't f**k with that hip-hop s**t. You understand? I'm home, I take care of my family. I f**k with other kinds of n****s, I don't f**k with no hip-hop dudes, man. That rap s**t is fake... these rap dudes is fake.” MenKindHomeCareMy FamilyHip HopRapTake CareHipsFakeHopsRapper Author:Sean Price
“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.” PeopleYearsKindBookSchoolFoundHouseLeftStruggleIdentityTerribleFindingsMy FamilyMovedLibraryBoxesLike MeRecallsVolumeDelightedHereticContainingInquisitionSchool Library Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I'm not gonna buy something without planning. If I buy $100,000 worth of gold, I gotta put $100,000 aside for my family in case something happens. You look kind of stupid wearing all that gold and you didn't have no plan.” IfsLooksKindHappensCasesPlansStupidMy FamilyGoldPlanningThings Happen Author:Mr. T
“I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.” ThinkingGivingKindSchoolInfluenceCollegeHigh SchoolMy FamilyCoachesHometownGoing To College Author:Lenny Moore
“My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.” KindDifferentGuyBrainConsciousnessWindowMy FamilyOur FamilySurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherCrushedMy GrandfatherDichotomy Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when we had some runs that were 7 or 8 weeks in a row and I wouldn't see my family the whole time. It has gotten easier with the internet you know because you can Skype or get on Facetime and connect with your family. It was much harder to do that when we started Garbage 20 years ago.” PeopleKindRunningWeekInternetMy FamilyOur Family Author:Butch Vig
“There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in The Journey Home. I loved my family and they loved me, so making a choice so completely different from the life they knew was also a challenge. Not having material possessions or the security of a home and taking vows of celibacy for life were kind of natural for me, although they were also challenging. But I guess the greatest challenge for me was that I loved so many different spiritual paths.” KindDifferentHomeSpiritualChoicesNaturalChallengesPathJourneySecurityDangerousMy FamilyPossessionAfghanistanVowCelibacyMaterial Possessions Author:Radhanath Swami
“I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.” PeopleWorldWritingKindPainCommunityLossGriefStruggleHonestMy FamilyRealizationBeing HonestBenevolent Author:Jesmyn Ward
“My brothers are so much a part of who I am, and such a large part of my heart and my drive. I've never had a kid, but I understand that whole, "I would kill for my family" kind of thing. I understood it, it resonated with me. It's a very primal, animal thing that you feel for your family.” HeartKindKidsAnimalBrotherMy HeartMy FamilyOur FamilyMy Brother Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came to New York when he was a young man to be an actor and he, over a course, was in a couple Broadway musicals. I grew up in family where theater was always part of the vocabulary. By the time I was a teenager I was just totally obsessed, and it was the only thing I could imagine myself doing.” MenKindFatherImagineCoupleMy FamilyTeenagerObsessed Author:Peter Vack
“I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.” PeopleGivingKindSpaceSpecialMediaMy FamilyFollowingRequestTaiwanBombardedLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyBombarded By Author:Jeremy Lin
“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.” PeopleWantKindChristianSpiritualMotherJesusTermChristChurchFamilyWeekJesus ChristMy FamilyRaisesFolksSpokesChristian FaithLater In Life Author:Barack Obama
“I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.” PeopleWritingTryingKindAbleJoyStuffSorrowMy FriendsMy FamilyDivorceMy Sister Author:Dolly Parton
“When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.” ThinkingKindSuccessfulTakenShadowFairsMy FamilyThrownCautionCautious Author:Robert Redford
“My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?” KnowsWayTryingKindLongStillsSpiritualBeliefPracticeLong TimeToughMy FamilyWitnessMy WayJehovah Author:Ja Rule
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” KindFeelingsMotivationalFoundFatherIndividualLanguageWomenDifferencesMistakeFamilyKindnessCommunicationAppreciateMy FamilyAppreciationAtmosphereNurtureAppreciatedFlexibleNurturingFlourishingAbout FamilyInspirational Family LoveGreat FamilyInspirational FamilyIndividual DifferencesFamily TiesLoving Your FamilySpiritual FamilyOpen CommunicationBeing Appreciated Author:Virginia Satir
“When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.” KindI CanUniverseNextRoomsMinutesRedMy FamilyTeenagerHidingBedroomCarpetParallelsRed CarpetOne MinuteParallel UniverseHiding Out Author:Florence Welch
“I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.” KindTogetherUsedStarsFictionWatchesFansActivityMy FamilyScience FictionNerdy Author:Olivia Wilde
“There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.” PeopleWantKindHas BeensBrotherMy FamilyInstitutionsMajorityDareLikesMy BrotherAffectedStreaksSchizoid Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.” ThinkingKindLongReasonBornLong TimeMy FamilyExpectedNobility Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.” WorldKindStoriesUseInterestMy FamilyInstinctObservationComicDevicesLife StoryPertinent Author:Bill Bryson
“The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.” KindMy FamilyExcitedSan Francisco Author:Margaret Cho