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" Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. "
Vik Muniz
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" I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. "
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Family
" I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! "
Shirley Manson
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Girlfriends
Even
" My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. "
Wentworth Miller
Reunion
Group
Racism
" When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to jump into a new community and really learn English, assimilate, and adapt - and I saw that. I grew up in that community. "
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Community
Mom
Adapt
" You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?' "
Maria Shriver
Daughter
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" It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports. "
Kenny Chesney
Small
World
Family
" I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. "
Rooney Mara
You
Me
I Am
" We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration. "
Frank Wolf
Culture
Family
Life
" Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends. "
Elaine Chao
Memories
Girl
Life
" You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. "
Travis Bradberry
Family
Leader
Without
" I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do. "
Martina Navratilova
Women
Children
Family
" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "
Cory Booker
Be Different
Family
You
" Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it. "
Ellen DeGeneres
Family
Lost
Back
" We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. "
Rima Fakih
Family
Uncle
Sister
" Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress. "
Michael N. Castle
Progress
Determination
Family
" I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church. "
Rodrigo Duterte
Children
Church
Family
" I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. "
Queen Elizabeth II
Life
You
Service
" I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "
Don Marquis
Finish
Family
Blood
" As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics. "
Matt Bevin
Will
Direct
Planned
" We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. "
Darius Rucker
Church
Kid
Sunday
" My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church. "
Henry Fonda
Family
Church
Christian
" I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow. "
Mattie Stepanek
Looking
Friends And Family
Family
" No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. "
J. Edgar Hoover
Goes
Solve
Problem
" There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter. "
Kelly Slater
Father
Daughter
Family
" My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love. "
Chuck Schumer
Small
Father
Love
" 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. "
Adam Sandler
Hero
Character
Children
" Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia. "
Anthony Pratt
Energy
Family
Company
" I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from? "
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Harvest
Family
" Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. "
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Speak
Think
Time
" Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. "
Freya Stark
Soul
Race
Circle