My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson.
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.
When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.
If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.
I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
I look at 'Breaking Bad' as a show about the American family.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.
The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.
We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
When young ladies approach me and thank me for providing a conservative role model, it's all worth it. When the family members of law enforcement officers approach me and thank me for being a voice for their community, it is all worth it.
I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.
I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
