My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble. That was a disequilibrium system. I realized that the ordinary old-fashioned Euclidean geometry didn't apply.
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It's a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.
By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.
I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
Since the fright of breast cancer hit our family, I have been surprised by how many people are dealing with breast cancer in their own family or with a loved one. One friend bluntly told me that she has been through it with her sister, her mom, and her grandmother, and all are healthy and mentally stronger because of the disease.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
