Uncles Quotes - Page 2

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

  Bryan Clay

  Cousin, Aunt, Grandparent

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• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  Mark Dunn

  Dog, Lazy, Toby

  Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.8, MP Publishing

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• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Children, Lap, Used

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Discovery, Medicine, Alcohol

  The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 16

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• IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Years, Cabins, Fiction

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• When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?

  Ed O'Neill

  Dog, Morning, Children

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• My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

  James Earl Jones

  College, Firsts, Members

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  Richard Miller

  Men, Funeral, Inheritance

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• One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

  James Earl Jones

  College, Kansas, One Day

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• My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

  George Gobel

  Work, Drinking, Beer

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