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People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.


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SINEAD O'CONNOR It's frustrating that innocent families are torn apart because of these types of campaigns. It seems...
AHMED BEDIER Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
SAMI GAYLE There is an “exception to every rule” - and most people think they are it.
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BARBARA SARD We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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BRAD HENRY Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE All families are happy, all families are alike.
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JULIE BURCHILL This is a great way for families to look at what they are eating all together.
ELAINE TURNER Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that chi...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of ...
TOM VILSACK We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that ...
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ED WILKS These people are so desperate to get health insurance for their families that they are very easily d...
CINDY EHNES They are nice and have families. Many would like to work. They sometimes don't look or smell great, ...
CONNIE WILSON It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. A...
SAM SHEPARD I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world.
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ASHLEY DAVIES Mrs. Bush has said that all families are welcome at the White House and they look forward to this gr...
MARIA TAMBURRI Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that chi...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD People live in their homes. People are still buying. Families are still growing.
WAYNE NORRIS Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families
CELSO CUKIERKORN We think it's good, very good. People may not think of us as an interactive, fun place, but more and...
ERIN HOGAN We should remember them and their families in our prayers every day.
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PHIL BREDESEN Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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DIGBY JONES I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot...
IRVIN MAYFIELD There are the families that we are born into, and there are the families that we choose our circle o...
PROVERB It is the need for convenience that leads to unhealthy eating for families, ... People are being ask...
ELIZABETH PIVONKA Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police ...
KAREN SALMANSOHN Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, bu...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white...
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ALAN EVANS Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
EDWARD W. HOWE Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
ED HOWE Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.
ED HOWE It especially suits modern Chinese families, as families are becoming smaller nowadays.
RUDOLF ZARTH GESCHAFTSLEITUNG Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
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BRUCE RUTHERFORD This is an amazing event and I can't believe they do this every year. It is a wonderful day for the ...
CHARLOTTE RUTHERFORD Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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CHARLIE VOGELHEIM I think that went a long way for closure with the families,
KEITH HENDERSON Even in families there are some people that may frustrate your efforts, do good anyway..
OLASOT The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families ...
JACK RYAN This is especially true in a destination like Orlando, where our industry is extremely competitive. ...
HOWARD NUSBAUM Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think...
CHARLES DICKENS In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent fam...
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BARBARA MIKULSKI It affects everybody. Everybody has to be concerned. This could rip families apart.
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STEVEN SPIELBERG I feel bad for all the families. We are all mothers, and they are all sons.
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RAY NAGIN People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
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NELSON DEMILLE By coincidence, they look like one another - same height, same look, and their families are from the...
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MATTHEW DESMOND When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the...
MATTHEW LEWIS I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
MATTHEW GREEN