Brother Quotes - Page 26

• Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Grimm

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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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• I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

  Bernie Mac

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Bernie Mac (2001). “I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is”, MTV Books

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• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  Gabriel Macht

  Doctors, Parent, Lawyer

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

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• I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

  Greg Maddux

  Golf, Years, Hawaii

  Interview with Matt Ginella, www.golfdigest.com. March 2, 2008.

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• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  Markus Zusak

  Cheer, Growing Up, Memories

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• Hyun Joong brother always prays SS501 WILL BE FOREVER ONE so we always try our best to make our performances cool.

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Forever, Trying, Praying

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• My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

  Chris Cornell

  Home, My Brother, Quentin

  "Exclusive: Chris Cornell Talks Writing Music for MACHINE GUN PREACHER, His Career, Soundgarden, Touring, Johnny Cash, Video Games and Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

  Kenji Goto

  Prayer, Hate, Lying

  "Kenji Goto tweet of tolerance goes viral in poignant memorial to journalist", www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Book, Only Child

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.176, New Directions Publishing

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• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Identity, Saint

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• The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

  Pope Paul VI

  Blessed, Cutting, Men

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• One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Mom, Dad, Play

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

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• It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

  Colum McCann

  Mother, Wind, Sea

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.

  Susan Downey

  Venice, Hollywood, Next

  "Susan Downey: Iron Woman" by Kimberly Cutter, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 9, 2009.

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• My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  Janet Jackson

  Missing, Gone, My Brother

  "Janet Jackson Takes Control". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 09, 2009.

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• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Regret, Grief, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

  Larry Holmes

  Eight, Giving, Guy

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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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• My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

  Ernie Isley

  Memories, Night, Philadelphia

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• Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.

  Teyana

  Really Cool, My Brother

  "Buzzworthy Exclusive: Teyana Taylor for President!". Buzzworthy interview, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.

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• My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

  Martha Wainwright

  Interesting, Childhood, Different

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• What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

  Richard Grasso

  People, Rewards, Failing

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• I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Mother, Doctors, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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