Brother Quotes - Page 25

• I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

  Diana Lopez

  Thinking, Champion, Training

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• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Children, Dad

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• My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

  Darrell Issa

  Careers, Long, My Brother

  "Issa's Rags-to-Riches Tale Has Some Ugly Chapters" by Eric Lichtblau, articles.latimes.com. May 23, 1998.

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• Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Girl, Doors, People

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• My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

  Trevor Phillips

  Working Together, Spoil, Together

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• It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

  Ernie Isley

  Practice, Likes, Surprise

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

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• My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

  Nikki Reed

  Autism, Charity, Littles

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• You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

  Sam Raimi

  Mother, Littles, Stills

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 29, 2004.

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• I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

  Ali Smith

  Growing Up, Years, Games

  "Life stories". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  Samantha Stosur

  Sports, Beach, Home

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his heart. Twice as big as the state of Texas. Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without him… Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. Rest in peace brother Dime.

  Vinnie Paul

  Rest In Peace, Heart, Loss

  "Damageplan Drummer Issues Statement". www.nme.com. December 11, 2004.

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• I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

  Mark E. Smith

  Helping, Younger Sister, Turns

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• If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

  Michael Schenker

  People, Choices, Scorpions

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• The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Names, My Brother, Sissy

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• I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Climbing, Tree, Idyllic

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• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  Zack Snyder

  Country, Book, Men

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• It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

  Christine Taylor

  Growing Up, Tennis, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  Carol Vorderman

  Father, Years, Rejection

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Order, Suffering, Generations

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• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  Mae Whitman

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

  Mike Weir

  Golf, Two, Always Trying

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• I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Cousin, Children

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• I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Cousin, Boys

  "Mike Love sets the record straight on Brian Wilson's 'firing'" by Mike Love, articles.latimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

  Anthony Mackie

  New York, Actors, Becoming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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