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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
– Maria Sharapova
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
– Robin Williams
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When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.
– Mike Singletary
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
– Glenn Beck
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When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
– Jonathan Davis
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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
– Jerry Falwell
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When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
– Bill Nighy
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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
– Anne Lamott
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When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
– Guy Lafleur
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
– Sachin Tendulkar
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When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.
– Terri Clark
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
– Dave Grohl
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
– Christopher Lasch
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
– LaToya Jackson
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When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.
– Jenson Button
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When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.
– Cat Cora
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When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
– Lauryn Hill
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
– Maya Lin
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When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
– Cat Cora
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When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
– George Saunders
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When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.
– Snoop Dogg
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When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
– Sherri Shepherd
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When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
– Delta Goodrem
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When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.
– Leighton Meester
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When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
– Drew Barrymore
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
– David Plouffe
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
– Harlan Coben
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Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
– Jim DeMint
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Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
– Rod Stewart
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Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
– Brett Favre
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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
– Prince William
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We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
– Emeril Lagasse
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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
– Jerry Falwell
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
– Darius Rucker
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
– Lawrence Welk
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We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
– Peter Singer
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We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
– Allen West
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
– Julia Barr
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
– Barbra Streisand
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
– Gabrielle Union
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We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
– Star Jones
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
– John Sculley
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We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
– Sara Blakely
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
– Jonathan Sacks
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We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
– Marco Rubio
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We are a very crafty family.
– Tori Spelling
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
– Harold Ramis
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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
– Kin Hubbard
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
– Vanessa Hudgens
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
– Francesca Annis
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Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
– Michelle Obama
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
– Ted Allen
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To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
– Cat Cora
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
– Adam Sandler
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Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
– Ang Lee
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Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
– Mark Zuckerberg
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
– Casey Stengel
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They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
– Francis Ford Coppola
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There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
– Willie Stargell
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
– Meryl Streep
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
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There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
– David Bowie
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There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
– Gordon Ramsay
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There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
– Mike Royko
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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
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There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
– Gus Van Sant
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
– Anwar Sadat
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
– Shirley Knight
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There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
– Gerald R. Ford
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
– Henry Louis Gates
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
– C. J. Cherryh
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The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
– John Sununu
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The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
– Tiger Woods
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
– Garrett Hardin
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The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
– Theresa May
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
– Gustave Flaubert
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
– Tony Campolo
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The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.
– Brett Favre
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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.
– Giada De Laurentiis
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
– Samuel Butler
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The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
– Sergio Aragones
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The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
– A. N. Wilson
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The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
– Tony Dorsett
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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.
– Tom Morello
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
– Christopher Lasch
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The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
– Mitt Romney
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The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
– Annie Leibovitz
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
– Lee Iacocca
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The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
– Miley Cyrus
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
– Eddie Van Halen
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
– Calvin Trillin
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