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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. – David Hockney

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. – Henry Louis Gates

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo. – Shania Twain

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. – Mario Batali

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. – Chris Christie

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention. – Simon Mainwaring

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. – Camille Paglia

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men. – Jennifer Granholm

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. – Shirley MacLaine

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. – Christopher Lasch

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. – Christopher Lasch

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. – Julie Andrews

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. – Shaun White

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. – Paul Lynde

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him. – Ang Lee

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. – Elizabeth Edwards

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. – Henry Louis Gates