“I'm a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy feeling vulnerable, so I think my loved ones and my family make me feel vulnerable. Also, being connected with people when I'm working is a very vulnerable place to be.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsFeelingsEnjoyMy FamilyConnectedVulnerableLoved Ones Author:Grant Bowler
“I have been shaped by the experiences of the people who are closest to me, by the things I've learned from [my wife] Martha, by my hopes and my concerns for my children, Philip and Laura, by the experiences of members of my family, who are getting older, by my sister's experiences as a trial lawyer in a profession that has traditionally been dominated by men.” PeopleMenChildrenHas BeensWifeMembersConcernMy FamilyMy WifeProfessionLawyerTrialsMy ChildrenI've LearnedMy SisterClosestGetting OldGetting OlderPhilipThings I've LearnedLauraTrial Lawyers Author:Samuel Alito
“I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.” PeopleHelpingHealthyMy FamilyAnd LoveWoodsYesterdayLove Each OtherHealthy And Happy Author:Daphne Oz
“I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.” PeopleWayTryingEndsPainGroupsHonestDependsMy FamilyCurrentsFamily And Friends Author:Christina Perri
“One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.” PeopleIfsHardStoriesDreamRememberUsedAttentionTalkingTvsMy FriendsRedMy FamilyNineComedianIf I CouldCravingPeople Talking Author:Sandra Cisneros
“My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.” PeopleBelieveHeartOpinionTaughtMy HeartMy FamilyInstinctAlways Believe Author:Witney Carson
“Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.” PeopleWayArtFilmStuffTelevisionInspireMy FriendsMy FamilyMeetingsInspiredMeeting New PeopleFilm And TelevisionVery Inspired Author:Jessica McNamee
“When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relationship with them, and it wasn't like a rejection or anything, but they couldn't understand why I was going to India.” PeopleMy FamilyIndiaTwentiesRejectionGood Relationship Author:Gary Kraftsow
“I did a film [about a con-artist mom and son] called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's gonna hire me for their [big-budget] romantic comedy, so it's up to me to look out for great indie comedies and show people a different side of myself - even if it's for three people outside of my family.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentShowsBigsFilmArtistThreeSidesComedySonMomMy FamilyBudgetsDifferent SidesCon Artist Author:Milla Jovovich
“Some people weren't sure whether they wanted to get on board until the very end, and by then it's too late - so we just shake their hand and thank them for their time as well. I don't know that I'm beating anyone at their own game, other than just being myself and doing what I've promised my fans, my family, and my team that I'm going to do.” PeopleKnowsWellsEndsHandsWantedGamesTeamFansLateMy FamilyBoardsShakesToo LateJust BeingBeing Myself Author:Cody Johnson
“When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy.” PeopleChildrenEnjoySacrificeMy FamilyMy Children Author:Dolores Huerta
“The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."” PeopleWorldBornModernLandMy FamilyWealthyModern World Author:Ian Bogost
“An entire wall in my home is covered with framed pictures of my family and friends. It's nice to go home after a long week of traveling for work and be reminded of memories with the people I love.” PeopleLongHomeMemoriesNiceWeekWallMy FamilyCoveredFamily And FriendsFramedLong Week Author:Karlie Kloss
“People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.” PeopleWorldTwoWarCallingMy FamilyWar Of The WorldsFreethinkerTwo WorldsUnitarian Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.” PeopleLooksI CanProblemFatherMy FamilyMustache Author:Tilda Swinton
“My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK.” PeopleNamesProudMy Family Author:Toks Olagundoye
“I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy.” PeopleWantMeanStatesMightChoicesBornPrinciplesDemocracyMy FamilyDestructionStructureBrokeFamily LifeZionistBasic Principles Author:Judith Butler
“Well, everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana, and Columbus will always be home.” PeopleWellsHomeGraceMy FamilyGod's GraceColumbusIndiana Author:Mike Pence
“This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that - and I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president [Donald Trump], it just tells me this is a great country. My grandfather was right.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingCountryHardDreamHandsCareKidsPresidentStudyAirHard WorkTrumpGiving UpStandingMy FamilyYour DreamsImmigrantsPlatformsGrandfatherNever Giving UpMy GrandfatherGreat CountryGrandsonNever Give Up On Your DreamsSmall LifeHands In The Air Author:Mike Pence
“My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesWholeResultsMy FamilyMovedDeeperDivorceLocalsBunchMore TimeAnchorsIdentification Author:John Darnielle
“I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.” PeopleAbleLife IsRight NowMy FamilyExcitedFamily And FriendsExcited About Life Author:Regina Hall
“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksColorGrewGrew UpAreasMy FamilyFolksLos AngelesCracksChicagoDetroitEpidemicsBaltimoreNucleusOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.” PeopleHas BeensMotherStuffReligiousDadMy FamilyImportanceMy DadGenderGender EqualityOpen MindednessMeccaHajj Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.” PeopleAmericaUnderstandingCompanyPrinciplesMy FamilyDevotedFree Society Author:Charles Koch
“I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.” PeopleHumanityProcessOpinionAdviceMy FamilyEtcCritique Author:Floyd Cooper
“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
“We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn't find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that's ironic, isn't it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii.” PeopleDifferentChurchKindnessWeekOfficeIntellectualMy FamilyAtmospherePermanentMinistersIronicInvitedHawaiiResidenceHeadquartersUnitarianHonoluluUnitarian Church Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: it dictates the way they behave and sustains them in tough times, of which we've had too many lately.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsMeanToughMy FamilyBehaveDaily LifeTough TimesReally Mean Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.” PeopleIfsMadeDiesCuttingModernTypeMy FriendsMy FamilySavedMade ItSensitiveCapitalistStraightforwardPsychotherapy Author:Dar Williams
“I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never got it in my family. I am the first to hug somebody, because I wasn't hugged.” PeopleFirstsFeelingsJoySimpleMy FamilyPraiseComplimentHugSimple Things Author:Sherry Lansing
“I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don't dare put on airs.” PeopleSpeakHumilityMy FamilyDareMake Sense Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I'm a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That's it! I'm very simple!” PeopleThinkingEarthGirlFunWishSimpleBlessingMy FamilyHaving FunObsessedSilverFamily And Friends Author:Kierra Kiki Sheard
“Everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana.” PeopleGraceMy Family Author:Mike Pence
“I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president, it just tells me this is a great country.” PeopleGivingCountryDreamCareKidsPresidentStudyHard WorkGiving UpMy FamilyNever Giving UpGreat CountrySmall Life Author:Mike Pence
“Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were starting to change. We screened the film all over the world - in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities - and people across the board said, "That's my family."” PeopleWorldRealFilmBlackCommunityAttitudeStruggleMy FamilyGreekLatinoReal Women Author:America Ferrera
“If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.” PeopleKidsInfluenceMy FamilyRole Models Author:Kristin Armstrong
“There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body. I talk about my body, my relationship with food, men, and sleeping around to find love, my relationship with my family - trials and tribulations. I want people to know they're not alone. And this isn't just about people younger than 30. I have fans who are 30 or 40 telling me, This is exactly what I needed to hear.” PeopleMenMeanSleepPerfectMy FamilyNot AloneFinding LoveTribulation Author:Ashley Graham
“You'd be surprised how quickly our identities evaporate when we were able to connect with people on a very personal level because we're all really trying to chase the same dream, we are looking for the same thing, we're raising our kids, we're just trying to get along. And, right now we are able to show people, hey, I'm just a human being like you are, I've got to take care of my kids and my family just like you, how can I help you?” PeopleTryingHelpingDreamCareKidsIdentityLike YouMy FamilyTake Care Author:Sam Rasoul
“I try to do as much as I can within myself, with my friends, with my family. Talking to people who are motivated by freedom. I think that sometimes there's something called a negative learning curve where you begin to watch what's happened when the government takes more and more of your life and all of a sudden it's not working so well. I think people may get the idea that they may have bought into some false idols.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesNegativeMy FamilyMotivated Author:James Wasserman
“I haven't really thought about family in my work. I simply play with people I meet. They mostly become friends. There is something like a great community of people around me, but this does only exist in my mind. All these people are my family, they are not a family. They mostly don't know each other.” PeopleMindCommunityMy Family Author:Gaspar Claus
“We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom, and the opportunity to live has humans. These are my friends, my family, and my fellow North Koreans.” PeopleGivingOpportunityMy FamilyAbsenceNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kang Chol-hwan
“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
“I used to be the definition of a people pleaser. I would say 'yes' to anything and everything and then, when I got home, I'd complain and vent to my family. I had to realise that it's okay to say 'no' sometimes.” PeopleSometimesHomeMy FamilyOkayComplainingRealising Author:Lizzie Velasquez
“I'm more of an actor than a boxer really. That's what I do in my life. I'm inspired by those real people that surround me: my family... I always say that I don't have friends, only brothers, and that's it. That's why I'm always real and free because I'm inspired by the people that trust me, and who I trust in. We are just free when we are together.” PeopleRealTogetherBrotherMy FamilyInspiredSurroundTrust Me Author:Fabio Gatti
“The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.” PeopleActionGirlJusticeAcceptingWifeTerribleMy FamilyToleranceDemonHiding Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“I was a risk-taker as a young man, and I don't regret it. I'm not adventurous in quite the same way now, but I still love the challenge of testing myself to the limits, flying around the world, or seeing if I can be the first to fly a balloon across the Atlantic, or trying to take people into space at an affordable price in an environmentally friendly way. I'll be going into space with three generations of my family!” PeopleMenWorldTryingChallengesRegretMy FamilyFlyingFriendlyAdventurousAffordable Author:Richard Branson
“I feel like if we stopped pushing people away in trying to get to the top, we could work together. My goal is to start with my family and my friends, progressively get better and create opportunities for them to express themselves and become happy people, then have them affect the people they're around. [I want to] create this growing effect of positivity and inspired a willingness to overcome any obstacles that are in front of you, whether it be from our government or from our daily lives.” PeopleTryingTogetherOpportunityGoalMy FamilyOvercomingInspiredPositivityObstaclesGet BetterWorking TogetherDaily LifeWillingnessHappy People Author:Ryan Guzman
“I was born in the United States, I'm proud to be an American, I'm an American first. But obviously, I'm a Chinese-American. And growing up, my family, my parents, and I think rightly so didn't put us in Chinatown, didn't put us with our other ethnic group, but put us in mainstream America. They're thinking was that will help us assimilate into the mainstream and be a part of it. And it did. It certainly gave me tolerance of other people, of other races, of other ethnicities and I think that's helped make me a better person.” PeopleThinkingHelpingParentGrowing UpProudMy FamilyToleranceBetter Person Author:Leroy Chiao
“My dad is a minister and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English. My mum and dad moved to London when they had my eldest sister. They started a life in London as immigrants, and they built up from there. They're no actors in my family, but there are definitely animated black people in my family.” PeopleLanguageBlackDadMy FamilyMovedMy DadBlack PeopleMumAnimatedEldestMum And Dad Author:John Boyega
“I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what does the Shari'a say?" And he said, "Well, of course it doesn't justify suicide bombs," but he didn't seem to know where the Shari'a came from or what it was all about. The more I asked people in my family as well as friends, the more I realized that there seemed to be widespread ignorance in the Muslim community. And that's something which I actually found to be the case over the next two and a half, three years I spent writing the book.” PeopleWritingBookFatherCommunityIgnoranceMy FamilySuicideLawyerI RealizedJustify Author:Sadakat Kadri