My family has lived here for 200 years. When we came back here after the Cultural Revolution our old home had been destroyed so I had to start again. Now we have to leave for good.
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LAN CHUNG Before the revolution we had 300 for six million people in Tehran, but now we have less than 200 for... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI Our family has slaved away out here for 40 years. We want to be able to maximize our profits when we... ALAN MOORE It's been wonderful to be home. It's like now we can start getting into our family mode again. MALESSA WING We've been good friends for a long time. I've been here for three years now, so those seniors were t... BRIAN COURTMANCHE I've lived in South Florida for 20 years, and up until five years ago, lived about three miles from ... BILL JAMES We haven't seen the job market this active since we've been here, and we've been here for 10 years. ... DAN CHAVASSE I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li... HANNAH SIMONE She went to Geneva? You know what, we didn't discuss it. She's been at Montini for two years and fee... JASON NICHOLS We feel it is our time to shine, and now we can make the most of this as we try to qualify for the O... TANITH BELBIN Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ... JACKIE KENNEDY The school has been around for probably 50 years. There's a lot of history here. Back in the 1980s, ... TOM MOFFETT BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGE We were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did ... AMIT ABRAHAM [Then came Sydney. Crushed by the weight of expectations (] When I arrived here today, I was crying ... HICHAM EL GUERROUJ Jan Case, our store manager, she's been here longer than I have. She's been here since 1968. Twig Ca... ROBERT WILLIAMS My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday ca... DANA PERINO I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette... EMMETT KELLY I came here for my sisters ? to help them get married ? and to help me have some kind of future. We ... MAGED EISSA When we've been really good here, we've had guys that have been that way. You go back to when Alfred... RANDY EDSALL When I got here, there was a sense of futility. If the old administration had stayed on here for thr... JON WEFALD So here we are and we spent all our money. We had to have the lights changed into our names and we n... JAMES DELONG It was nice for me to go where some of my family had so much success, and to have so much family her... LANCE NIEKRO I don't think our secondary has ever been stable since I got here. We have always had guys in and ou... ADAM ARCHULETA I've lived here for 25 years. We need the jobs. I do think it's going to be good for the community. JEFF WELLS I had to be here. I was there for the send off, and I had to see 'em back home. KAREN HILL I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafay... EMMETT KELLY We have a really nice assortment of employers. We had hoped to have something for our graduates agai... GAYLE WICKER The concerts are good for our community's culture. A woman who has moved here from another area, for... HELEN GOULD I could sense he was a little bit nervous. He had been the starter here for a couple of years. He ca... DAN MULLEN I'd do it again if I had to. We made it here all safely. That's the main thing. (Claudia and Joe) ha... DONALD BERRY we just had our football bible study group in here. I've been leading it for the last three years. ANDREW CLARKE strong , long-dormant urge to fly came thundering back alive after almost twenty years. I had to get... CLYDE EDGERTON My family has had hard, difficult times, but we've always been together. Now, I have to start all ov... IMELDA LOPEZ We had auditions for the drum line right after Thanksgiving. Things have been really going nonstop a... BRYAN WILLIAMS My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc... AUDREY MEADOWS We didn't have a scholarship for Tamari. She's a good volleyball player. I don't know what our plans... DAVE SHOJI When I first got here, he was talking about games from two years ago and mistakes he had made. He's ... BRANDON DOMAN We rode bikes through here, rode our sleds through here and used to sit in the pavilion for hours. O... HOLLY FAULK I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ... PETE DU PONT This is our way of saying 'thank you' to the community. We would not be here today if it had not bee... CLEMA LEWIS I bet you he'd like to have the lineup he had in spring training. When I came here, I thought this w... JOSE VALENTIN We feel very strongly about having it here. We had it years ago in Tulsa when Oklahoma City didn't h... JOHN LONG Getting my wife and kids here put my mind at ease after going back and forth over the situation the ... JEFF MAGGERT Getting my wife and kids here put my mind at ease after going back and forth over the situation the ... JEFF MAGGERT One of the things I'd heard a lot was, 'He was the funniest comic we've ever had here in the six yea... DOUG FERRARI I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had p... COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH In the nine years, we've seen a lot of good ones and have been here five times and won twice after n... BILLY WALLER Again at Park Corner. We came up to Kensington yesterday evening and drove down here. It was a beaut... LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Everybody had been telling me I was going to play. My family, my friends. So when I got here, I just... ALFONSO SMITH We have people who come back year after year, ... Parents who brought their children are now bringin... WINNIE THE POOH We came here to see. We liked the location for a family restaurant. LISA CHEN We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now. PAT BOONE Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again fo... DONALD MILLER I've been here four years now. It's my time, my team. I knew it was time for me to take over when we... BRANDON ORR Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yok... DOROTHY ALLISON I am happy that I came and did what I had to do. It's been really hard to sit and listen to everythi... CYNTHIA MCCLOUD Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit,... BEAR BRYANT So many people move here and they're desperate for things they heard back home. Now we can give it t... JOANN UROFSKY I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When... GEORGE TAKEI It was good to get back on the track again. I haven't been here in a few years, so it was good to ge... BEN BOSTROM I'm one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We're all very close. ... DAVID LAMBERT He came here because he couldn't go back home. He had no choice. JAY REISINGER I'd love to come back every summer and do a play here. It's a definite challenge - we had less than ... CHRIS NOTH We both came from small, close families and we each have one brother. We married after our freshman ... DAVID BROWN I had a good time while I was here. I love it here and my family is here. I certainly have no hard f... TONY MEOLA The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, duri... BERNIE ZILBERGELD For my four years here, it's the first time we came out the first half and played good football. BOB MILLER I have lived here for so long, and this was the last piece of the puzzle. I really feel that I have ... TANITH BELBIN Until I came to the States, there was no hope for my future. I have two children, and I need to prot... JAMES SUONG So we are pretty much a family-owned and operated (business), we've been like that for years and yea... LYNDA LUBELCZYK We knew for years this would be our destination. I've read articles that 'Kirby just came here to di... JODI OLSON After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prev... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I had to quit my job and start staying home with the little guys. Two of them were babies at the tim... GREG TALBOTT I have been playing club with Darla for two years and it was exciting that we both had the opportuni... KAYLA WRIGHT It feels good. Now, of course, we have to demonstrate to our shareholders that there's real value to... JOHN THAIN This house is pretty big, but remember that it is a show home, so it has to be big so we can demonst... BOYCE THOMPSON I've been doing this for 13 years with my foundation, ... I play here in Detroit, and I think it's a... IVAN RODRIGUEZ You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that ... BLACK ELK Working men and women have not had a fair shake in this country for the last few years and we really... BART STUPAK Never, never had a wreck out here on this railroad as far as I know, and I've lived here for 20 year... GEORGE FRYE That's my reward for coming here in 1999. We couldn't even get bank loans when I came. Everything ha... FRAN COSTANTINO My jaw nearly hit the floor when he got up on stage. He had such timing and range and he had stage p... BRENDA DAVIES I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling c... DANIEL BRYAN The forest up through here has been completely destroyed. I say completely, but probably by 80 perce... GERARD LATORTUE We've always had kids from all over come here. This program has been a magnet for good wrestlers fro... KIRK SALVO My wife and I have lived in Lake Forest for over eight years. We love Lake Forest and serving on the... DAVID MOORE It could have hit the back of the net. I guess that's the way they ruled it. It's a fortunate break ... JEFF MUSHALUK It was awesome. We had an awesome truck when we came here and tested a couple weeks back. It was a g... MIKE SKINNER We had the car wash here for two years when we decided to begin the process of putting in the Fast S... DON FULLER It definitely can be really hard being away from friends and family for so long. People expect you t... HAYLEY WILLIAMS I miss this place, it's just home to me. I've lived here 49 years, it's just my home and I hope that... EDDIE BURNS
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