Cousin Quotes - Page 5

• I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

  Michel Gondry

  Sleep, Kids, Cities

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• The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

  Karen Abbott

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.

  Paul Smith

  Cities, Buffalo, Today

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• Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

  Karen Karbo

  Trying, Firsts, Hard

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• Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to start with someone so close.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Two, Fake

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• What do I look like, the ghost whisperer? They're loony. I'd have better luck talking to my cousin Alfonso's Chihuahua. At least Tía Juana knows Spanish." "Your cousin's Chihuahua is named Tía Juana?

  Darynda Jones

  Talking, Luck, Looks

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.517, St. Martin's Press

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• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Happiness, Clue, Appearance

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

  Joan Rivers

  Parenting, Motherhood, Birth

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, New York, Military

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• My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sassy, Fool

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1829). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left”, p.130

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• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Uncles, Father

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

  Deon Cole

  Uncles, Children, Trying

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate?" They twisted the head off your favorite doll, stuffed a dead bird into it, and made it walk around. And then they were puzzled why you got upset.

  Ilona Andrews

  Bird, Upset, Dolls

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.82, NYLA

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• My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

  Denis Leary

  Couple, Fire, Old Neighborhood

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

  Bill Cowher

  Redskins, Kirk

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• This isn’t Kirk Cousins’ job to win. Right now this is Kirk Cousins’ job to lose…He’s putting together a profile right now, a resume of these next seven weeks that will make the decision easy for the Redskins: either they sign him to a contract or they’re still looking for the quarterback of the future.

  Bill Cowher

  Jobs, Winning, Decision

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Sorry, Believe, Blow

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• My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Giving Up, Matter

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Father, Nice, Mean

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

  Kerstin Gier

  Thinking, Mind, Gideon

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

  Bill Cowher

  Player, May, Three

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• I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Men, Upset, Causes

  "Larry the Cable Guy: Morning Constitutions". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Sparklers are the gay cousins of the fireworks family.

  Dave Attell

  Gay, Fireworks

  Studio album: "Skanks for the Memories", February 4, 2003.

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• ...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart." Artemis put two and two together and arrived at a very unpleasant four. "You were here to rob me!" "No, I wasn't. How dare you?!

  Eoin Colfer

  Jobs, Lying, Fall

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