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“I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us; that's what makes a family. My family is just as real as yours.”

Thinking Children Real Hard Enjoy Mines Deserve Commitment My Family Committed Hard Times

Author:Zach Wahls

“I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.”

Thinking Way Moments Home Memories Deals Laughing Our Lives Sadness Healthy Jokes My Family Tragedy Coming Home Funeral Belly Saddest Limousines

Author:Zach Braff

“I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”

“I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.”

Thinking Giving Feels Different Sometimes Matter Steps Hell Fate My Friends My Family Give Me Guilt Terror Ease Ashamed Frightened Suicidal Exit

Author:Martha Manning

“I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Decision Team Honest My Family Being Honest Soccer Hockey Might Have Been Good Decision Hockey Team Soccer Team

Author:Carl Hagelin

“I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.”

Thinking Knows Littles Country Helping Home Bits Responsibility Right Now Little Bit My Family Available Our Country

Author:Tony Dungy

“I'm deeply grateful to live and work in this country and to the United States for opening its arms to me the way it has. I mean I think my attitude as an Aussie coming here - I've been coming here for a while now, I've been coming here for about 12 or 13 years - is that this country has afforded me and my family work and security. For that, I'm forever grateful.”

Thinking Way Years Mean Country States United Attitude United States Forever Security Arms My Family Grateful Opening My Attitude Aussies Forever Grateful

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.”

Thinking Growing Up Growing My Family Judaism Woody Suburbia

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.”

Thinking Knows Book Play House Know How My Family Instruments

Author:Demetri Martin

“I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.”

Thinking Enough Feelings My Own Careers Balance My Friends My Family My Time Categories Personal Life Enough Time

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection. When it comes to the people I'm related to, I consider myself to be very lucky.”

People Thinking Writing Parent Lucky My Family Affection Obvious Related Approval

Author:David Sedaris

“One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.”

“I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.”

Ifs Thinking Important Ethics My Family Plant Seeds Abundance Work Ethic Reap

Author:Lauryn Hill

“People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.”

People Thinking Knows Life Is Numbers Basketball My Family Priorities Know Me Trust Me Basketball Is My Life

Author:Dick Vitale

“I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'”

Thinking Said Ideas Whole Home Humor Funny Used Mother Guy Talking My Family Planning Accents Illinois

Author:Natasha Leggero

“The only time I really get afraid is when something is affecting my family. But even then, I start to think about the Bible and the passage that says "you should fear no one, fear no man, but only God," and I feel better.”

Thinking Men Feels Should My Family Passages Feel Better Only Time Fear No Man Fear No One

Author:Vernon Davis

“I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.”

Thinking Years My Family Over It Get Over

Author:Rita Gelman

“I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Two Might Company Goes On My Family Nervous

Author:Jack Nicholson

“My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.”

Thinking Together My Family Complicated Splits Family Life

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I am in love with life. I think it's pretty awesome when you are engaged in it. I love my family and my friends, and that to me is the biggest...that's the love of my life are my friends and family and the experience that I get to share with them. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart.”

Thinking Heart Faces Share My Heart My Friends My Family Engaged Love Life Family And Friends Love Of My Life Smile On My Face Love My Family I Love My Family

Author:Cameron Diaz

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Done Kids Together Jobs Opportunity Memories Chance Family Careers Missing My Family Coaches Coaching

Author:John Madden

“I don't know - I feel like someone would think of me, or anyone in my family, as unappreciative of a moment, and I've really learned to appreciate a moment. I take things in a lot. I'm kind of weird like that. I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Kind Moments Bigs Night Sky Appreciate My Family Think Of Me Weirdo

Author:Kendall Jenner

“When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.”

Ifs Thinking Years Believe Said Ideas Feelings Remember Faces Felt Parent Dad My Family My Dad Scary Catholicism Adam Liberated Slap Adam And Eve Road Trip Slap In The Face

Author:Alanis Morissette

“My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.”

People Thinking Trying Persons Problem Wanted Felt Lucky Normal My Family Glamorous Normal Life So Lucky

Author:Winona Ryder

“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Book Done Home Wanted Young Nice My Family Injustice Get Away Away From Home

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.”

Thinking Want Kind Facts Together Three Chance Destiny Fronts Circumstances My Family Court Tennis Restaurants Tennis Courts

Author:Novak Djokovic

“Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.”

People Ifs Thinking Joy Numbers Our Lives My Family Function Related Grandchildren Joy And Happiness My Grandchildren

Author:Mitt Romney

“I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells Said Stills Care Courses Know How Failing My Family Decided Reputation Bad Things Implications Pixar

Author:Steve Jobs

“I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.”

Thinking Mean Mother Parent Color Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Yeah Senses My Brother Sense Of Humor Survived Foul Naughty

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.”

Thinking Knows Children Stories Bigs Actors Deals Acting Horror My Family Big Deal Horror Stories Child Actors

Author:Ashley Johnson

“When it's not training time, I just do my own thing. I go home and hang out with my family, kick back and [don't] think about the fight too much. I just look at it as another opportunity in my life to move up.”

Thinking Looks Home Moving Fighting Opportunity My Own Too Much Training My Family Kicks Hanging Out Another Opportunity

Author:Josh Koscheck

“I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.”

Thinking Years War Hands Mother Students One Day My Family Train South Convinced Grandmother Stations Chicago Bus My Grandmother Fundraiser Raising Money

Author:Diane Nash

“As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.”

Thinking Life Deals My Family Decided Athlete Following Boxing Introspection Coming Back Retired Professional Athlete

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.”

Thinking Bits Special My Family

Author:Sophie Monk

“My family has always gone to church. I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.”

Thinking Has Beens Helping Church Careers Gone Crosses My Family Contests Reminders Athletic Gnarly Goggles

Author:Nick Goepper

“Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Home Reading Too Much Growing Praying My Family My Time Hotel Airports Growing Old Reading And Writing Thinking Too Much Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.”

People Thinking Way Play Use Language Common Growing Up Growing My Family India Typical Bombay Fooling Around

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.”

People Thinking World Play Care Wanted Challenges Chance Levels Player Ready Prove My Family Take Care Best Players

Author:Jermaine O'Neal

“To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip.”

Thinking World Mean Littles House Winning Car Dad My Family Factors Shopping Mum Mum And Dad Mean The World To Me

Author:Leona Lewis

“I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.”

Thinking Kids Attention Growing Up Growing My Family Endure Performers Kids Growing Up

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.”

Thinking Enough My Family

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.”

Thinking Wells Book Home Together Film Father Vision Lord Saws My Family Originals Rings My Sister Peter Impressed Uncles Aunt Lord Of The Ring

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.”

People Thinking Looks Ideas Sometimes Done My Family

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. I moved to New York for that reason. I think I am a very good example of how you really can do whatever you want to do without having any kind of prerequisite experience of any of kind of connection. None of my family members came from this world.”

Thinking World Want Kind Reason Able Can Do Nice New York Example This World Members My Family Connections Moved Very Good Family Members Good Examples Prerequisites Do Whatever You Want

Author:Jason Wu

“I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.”

Thinking Want Jobs Understanding Accepting Fantasy Normal My Family Hollywood Glitter Stardust

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.”

Thinking Honesty Type My Family Love Each Other Family Love

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.”

Thinking Problem Home Parent Hours Wife Easier My Family My Wife Fortunate More Time Lunch Flexible Timetables Money Problem

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.”

Thinking Different Comedy Happened My Family Ashamed Telling The Truth

Author:Bernie Mac

“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Lasts Sleep Family Brother Lessons My Family Empty My Brother Bottles Stomach Pills Couches Love My Family I Love My Family Paramedics Sleeping Pills Empty Bottles

Author:Emo Philips

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