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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about. -- Bethany Hamilton
My immediate family is real close-knit. -- Kenan Thompson
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. -- Sidney Altman
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends. -- Natalia Vodianova
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library. -- Anthony Horowitz
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For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. -- Andrei Sakharov
With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with! -- Heather Hemmens
I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty. -- Andrea Parker
My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family -- Andy Zaltzman
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. -- Albert Einstein
Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. -- Paul Walker
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well. -- Wayne Dyer
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving. -- John Marshall
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience. -- Jason Katims
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal. -- Steven Chu
People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term. -- Clayton Christensen
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years. -- Kary Mullis
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have. -- Shoshannah Stern
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have. -- Shoshannah Stern
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. -- Maajid Nawaz
A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in. -- Mike Crapo
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance. -- Susanne Bier
I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief. -- Lykke Li
Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice. -- Anne Enright
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them. -- Russell Crowe
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. -- Lynne Cheney
No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President. -- Harry S. Truman
There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state. -- Ian Svenonius
Someone that is not close with their family is an immediate deal breaker for me. -- Nico Tortorella
I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better. -- Joe Biden
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack. -- Maya Angelou

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