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There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
Jeffrey Kluger

Work, Yourself, Energy

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Love, Eat, Abuse

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
Jeffrey Kluger

Opinion, Once, Fairness

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
Edie Falco

Work, Home, Fun

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
Mike Honda

Equality, Women, Whole

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
Bradley Cooper

Catholic, Philly, Roman

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
Jane Goodall

Money, Women, Mother

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane Goodall

Life, Dreams, Girl

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
Martin Lawrence

Time, Respect, Cool

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
Shaquille O'Neal

Win, While, Financial

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.
Beyonce Knowles

God, Important, Treat

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
Bill Murray

Life, Mother, Lonely

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
Angie Stone

Time, Food, Bad

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
Caroline Kennedy

Work, Hard, Sense

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
Laura Schlessinger

Mother, Friends, Son

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
Vera Farmiga

Faith, Household, Ukrainian

We are a very crafty family.
Tori Spelling

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
Vera Farmiga

Children, Younger, Youngest

I have a very strong family.
Janet Jackson

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.
Tori Spelling

Great, Child, Dynamic

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
Janet Jackson

Work, Morning, Alone

I need to work to support my family.
Tori Spelling

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.
Roberto Cavalli

Fashion, Moment, Dream

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.
Jason Aldean

Money, Home, Down

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
Curt Schilling

Stupid, Baseball, Short

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