Uncles Quotes

• My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Death, Witty

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• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Unfortunate Things, Peculiar, Attics

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• I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

  Catherine Bell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Life Is Hard

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

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• They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

  Sarah Silverman

  Fun, Parent, Trying

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

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• I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

  George Lopez

  Couple, Fighting, Aunt

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• My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Humor

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.35, Zondervan

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• Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

  Peter Kay

  Family, Noses, Stealing

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• Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Bryan Clay

  Cousin, Aunt, Grandparent

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• It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, New York, Artist

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• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  Patrick Marber

  Mistake, Heart, Character

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Grandfather, Navy, Yards

  Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press

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• The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

  Dominic Chianese

  Father, Anger, Son

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• For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

  Dominic Chianese

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Brother, Dad, Boys

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• In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

  Michael Kinsley

  Politician, Schwarzenegger, Ted Kennedy

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• I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them

  Dian Fossey

  Angel, Sides, Groups

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• The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

  Chuck Barris

  Years, Guy, World

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• Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

  Margaret Whiting

  Friendship, Father, Wells

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• My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

  Dick Dale

  Sound, Ears, Trumpets

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• They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

  Black Elk

  Lying, Men, Medicine

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

  John C. McGinley

  Dirty, Barbie, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

  Terrence Howard

  Used, Antenna, Happened

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• Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Mean, New Job

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• By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

  Spencer Bachus

  Memories, War, Stories

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• You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

  Dusty Baker

  Dad, Father, Roles

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