If I had a long-term partner, I dont think Id be an actor. Itd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help. ”
I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.
Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.
