Cousin Quotes - Page 2

• My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

  Bill Kelly

  Kind, Closets, Homosexual

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• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dance, Sports, Lucky

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• Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

  Lauren Bush

  Who I Am, Mind, Rebel

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• When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Baby, Brother

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• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  Larry David

  Growing Up, Aunt, Thinking

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

  Jerry Garcia

  Movie, Grateful, Mean

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• I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Peace, Brother, War

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• I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

  Scott Wolf

  Cutting, Gay, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Brother, Eight, Two

  "'As long as we study life, it will be read': the Selfish Gene turns 40" by Adam Rutherford, May 29, 2016.

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

  Class, Stuff, Way

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• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  Jack Hanna

  Zoos, Animal, Ambassadors

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• No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

  John Irving

  Father, Years, Adults

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• I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

  Ezra Cornell

  Determination, Race, Practice

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• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is against all tho laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

  Victor Cousin

  Wise, Men, Law

  "The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal".

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• Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

  Victor Cousin

  Ignorance, Vices, Misery

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• I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

  Phil Collins

  Rifles, Four, Fantastic

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• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  Victor Cousin

  Beautiful, Way, Holy

  'Du vrai, du beau, et du bien' (Sorbonne lecture, 1818).

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• I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Memories, College

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  Idris Elba

  Talking, Nurse, Want

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  Victor Cousin

  War, Home, Ideas

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• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Brother, Children

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

  Martin Lel

  Running, Champion, Los Angeles

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• I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

  Mark Twain

  Grandmother, Men, Nurse

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

  Connie Britton

  Writing, Play, Costumes

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

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