Uncles Quotes - Page 23

• My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

  Michael Moore

  Hero, Coward, Taught

  Michael Moore @MMFlint, twitter.com. January 18, 2015.

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• You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

  Scott Walker

  Years, Pockets, Income

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Parent, Grandfather

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• Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.

  Howie Mandel

  Names, People, World

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• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  Gail Zappa

  Memories, Aunt, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes".

  Si Robertson

  Book, Favorite Uncle, Ducks

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Different, Want, Matter

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.

  Joe Biden

  Brother, Growing Up, Believe

  "On Becoming Joe Biden". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 1, 2007.

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• Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Pain, Aunt, Band

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• I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

  Scott Raab

  Summer, Memorial Day, Growing Up

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.

  Nelly

  Father, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• [I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

  Billy Crystal

  Stars, Dad, House

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Children, Names

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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

  Cousin, Children, Trying

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

  Jill Stein

  Use, Language, Kind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was.

  Paula White

  Pain, Book, Eye

  Source: culteducation.com

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• That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

  Paula White

  Eye, House, Looks

  Source: culteducation.com

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• My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Hero, Careers

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.

  Michael Buble

  Mom, Dad, Men

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

  Rafael Nadal

  Philosophy, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.

  Barack Obama

  People, Bangs, Cost

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

  Indira Gandhi

  Cousin, Brother, Blood

  Source: sangam.org

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• Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Curves, Long

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