Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions. 2.46K
I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me. 940
The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building. 2.39K
I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family. 686
Because I didn’t have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them – but it was not my family. I’ve always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. 699
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. 639
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don’t want to step on any mines. 1.05K
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. 704
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. 2.52K
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. 765
