When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.
— Tammy Duckworth
For me, BJP is more important than family.
— Tamilisai Soundararajan
Social justice for parties like the DMK, DK and the PMK is nothing but practising dynasty politics. Their concept of social justice is successor and family rule.
I love my husband so much. I love our family. I love our dynamic. I'm proud to be in the relationship that I am because it's based on love. Pure love.
— Tamera Mowry
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
— Tamara Tunie
What's very important for me is that I want family audiences - all kinds of audiences - to watch my films, and the more people who watch the movies, the better. So I want to be part of popular cinema.
— Tamannaah
I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
— Talia Balsam
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
— Talcott Parsons
I come from a big extended family, so it's very normal to be around babies for us, but when it's your own, it's a very different experience for us.
— Taika Waititi
A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other.
I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.
— Tahj Mowry
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
— Tahar Rahim
When you empower women, it's not just what's happening in her family: it's whats happening in her community and what's happening with her children.
— Tae Yoo
I like to spend time with family and friends and share my experiences with them.
— Tabu
With every movie, I am trying in my own little way to do whatever I can to change the way female characters have been presented and how an actress that comes from a family outside the industry is making an impact.
— Taapsee Pannu
I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
— T.I.
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
My political stand is beyond my family.
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.
My mom is a beautiful black woman, and my dad is an amazing white man, and I grew up seeing a family.
I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
For me, watching a movie is an experience where I can go, eat popcorn, and enjoy with my friends and family. I want to be a part of cinema that entertains people.
I'm much more shy than most of my family.
Our family was poor, but my parents gave us money for education.
— Takashi Murakami
Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother who are almost like strangers and acquaintances.
In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.
Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
— Tagg Romney
Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
— Tadanobu Asano
You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.
— Taboo
Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten to know that 'Manmarziyaan' is a story based in Amritsar.
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
— T. E. Lawrence
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
— Tammy Bruce
I have to say that despite being born in a Congress family and being the daughter of a respected Congress leader, I joined the BJP and served the party, forgetting my past, and without making any compromise.
I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.
I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter. He's a family man, and he's always giving back to God. That is what makes him a beautiful man. We're not perfect by any means, but that makes us beautiful as well. We're not afraid to say we're not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
— Talia Shire
I Skype my mum every day. Everyone in my family does creative things, so it's nice to have that support.
— Tali Lennox
Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
— Taj Mahal
The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.
I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
I am the only one in my family to get into acting.
— Tahir Raj Bhasin
When one person's livelihood changes, it can impact an entire family, then a whole community.
Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.
When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.
I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
