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" The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. "

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" I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. "

" If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "

" I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. "

" I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. "

" I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. "

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" Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path. "

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

" In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. "

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" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "

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" I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family. "

" Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. "

" I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball. "

" It is important for me to carve out time in my schedule to spend quality time with my family. "

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" I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. "

" We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew. "

" My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I'm a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature - and I love the beach. "

" It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right. "

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" Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. "

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" My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her. "

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" I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. "

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" No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician. "