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Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

~Bindi Irwin

Topics: Brother Family Father Little Little Brother Mean Mother Necessarily Older Older Sister Sister You

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When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.

~Binod Chaudhary

Topics: Building Business Deal Doing Easy Entered Family Family Business Father Generation Had Key People Realised Soon Thought Trust

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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

~Binyavanga Wainaina

Topics: Adopted Adopting Also Brothers Brothers And Sisters Christians Colonial Father First Good Grandfather Had Mixed Name Naming People Produce Schools Show Sisters Too Up Ways Were Western

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I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

~Birch Bayh

Topics: Being Decisions Father Getting He Help Helps Important Involved Just Make President Run Think Those Without You Your I Think

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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

~Black Elk

Topics: Center Children Circle Daylight Father Flowering Grew Hoop Hoops Made Many Mighty Mother People Sacred Say Shelter Tree Wide

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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.

~Black Elk

Topics: Arms Around Back Badly Face Father Felt Get Good Got Legs Mother Our Over Right Run Sitting Still Up Wanted Were

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All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

~Black Kettle

Topics: Ask Father Hand Hold Our Our Father Peace Want Whites You

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I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

~Blair Underwood

Topics: About Because Black Career Concepts Done Father Father And Son Film Given Kids Lot Partnership Pretty Son Superhero Things Type Watch Young

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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Boat Boy Father Fresh Germany Golden Greenwich He Law Law School Met Mother Nyu Off Prestigious Scholarship School Small Small Town Town Very Village Who Won Young

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I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.

~Bo Burnham

Topics: Company Construction Father Had Job Since Think Worked

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