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You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

~ Marvin Hamlisch

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

~ Don Herold

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

~ James Whistler

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

~ Desmond Tutu

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

~ Guy Lafleur

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

~ Khalil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

~ Khalil Gibran

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

~ Vince Lombardi

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

~ Sandra Bullock

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

~ Alex Haley

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

~ Gertrude Stein

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

~ Desmond Tutu

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

~ Chuck Norris

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

~ Donald Rumsfeld

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

~ Barry Gibb

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

~ Jim Fowler

If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.

~ Alyssa Milano

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

~ Aleksa Palladino

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

~ Andrew Motion

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

~ Robin Williams

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

~ Ring Lardner

My family barbecued a lot good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

~ Manish Dayal

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

~ Patricia Polacco

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

~ Nicolas Cage

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

~ Shailene Woodley

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

~ Susan Sarandon

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

~ Miley Cyrus

You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

~ Parvesh Cheena

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

~ Novak Djokovic

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

~ Douglas Coupland

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

~ Sandra Bullock

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

~ Jason Mraz

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

~ David Ogilvy

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

~ Jane Seymour

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

~ Debra Messing

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

~ Anita Baker

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

~ Louie Anderson

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

~ Suzanne Vega