My Cousin Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Cousin, Growing Up, Aunt

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

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

  Martin Lel

  Running, Cousin, Champion

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Cousin, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Cousin, Brother, Kings

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• I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Spiritual, Religious, Congregation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out

  Jessica Alba

  Cousin, Pops, Spread

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• Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

  Leon Uris

  Cousin, Brother, Father

  "The Haj". Book by Leon Uris, 1984.

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• When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

  Mario Batali

  Cousin, Uncles, Children

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

  Joely Richardson

  Cousin, Pride, Thinking

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

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• My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Cousin, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

  Matt Snell

  Art, Cousin, Brother

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Cousin, Brother, School

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

  Jessica Alba

  Cousin, Party, School

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

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• Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

  Daryl Hall

  Cousin, Circles, Wife

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• Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

  Ester Dean

  Cousin, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  Gabriel Macht

  Cousin, Couple, Years

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

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• The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

  Napoleon III

  Cousin, Mad, Politics

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• One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

  Eula Biss

  Country, Cousin, Fear

  "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.

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• I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who has her own catering business in Atlanta, Georgia. So everybody around me really cooked and it was just all these different styles and backgrounds and cuisines of cooking that I found so interesting.

  Kelly Rowland

  Mom, Cousin, Aunt

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Cousin, Children, Niece

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

  Edward Abbey

  Cousin, Wall, Thinking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  Yara Shahidi

  Cousin, Life Is Good, Hip Hop

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• My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

  Anne Tyler

  Cousin, Mistake, New Beginnings

  Anne Tyler (2012). “The Beginner's Goodbye”, p.122, Random House

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• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  Ja Rule

  Cousin, Play, Stuff

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

  Michelle Ryan

  Cousin, Boys, Used

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