Uncles Quotes - Page 10

• The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

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• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Latin, Names, After Hours

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Pain, Believe

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Stories, Film

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• [Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dog, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Country, Running, Czech Republic

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the day you spend with your family, and you have 40 to 50 people at your house, the uncles and the cousins, and I grew up with that.

  Karla Souza

  Cousin, Sunday, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single parents; they're breadwinners; they're the 'mamas,' they're the 'daddies,' they're the 'uncles.' They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.

  Steve Harvey

  School, Kids, Doctors

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Years, Scary

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Trying, Dollars

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• Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

  Malcolm X

  People, Leader, Trying

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• My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny, my uncle's really funny, everyone's really funny. You have to be quick, otherwise you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.

  Noel Fielding

  Dad, Mum, Mum And Dad

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.

  Erica Schroeder

  Grandmother, Nyu, Long

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• People can glum onto all sorts of things. And some might use this in that way instead of taking personal responsibility for their lives. But if you discover the addiction is not all your own, you can ask, "Do I want to drink or smoke on behalf of Uncle Fred? Or do I realize I need to get rid of Uncle Fred and live my own life."

  Robert Moss

  Responsibility, Might Use, People

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

  Michael Hyatt

  Art, Swimming, Aunt

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.

  Mavis Staples

  School, Home, Grandmother

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Cutting, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, People, Age

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.

  Marcel Pagnol

  Father, Heaven, Might

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• I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Talking, Car

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.

  Jessica Alba

  Thinking, Hug, Body

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Odds, Talking

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.

  Malcolm X

  Heart, America, People

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.

  Alveda King

  Taken, People, Greed

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cousin, Brother, Son

  "Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2013.

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