I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering... view

By: John Dykstra

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I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace... view

By: Martin Short

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Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers... view

By: Susan Collins

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Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall... view

By: Richard Petty

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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses... view

By: Steven Soderbergh

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Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it... view

By: Robert Urich

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The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds... view

By: James S. Coleman

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Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher... view

By: Joe Manchin

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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... view

By: Gerald R. Ford

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It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car... view

By: Mary Cheney

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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects... view

By: Patricia Velasquez

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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family... view

By: Tony Visconti

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