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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 / Chef
Uncles
Aunt
Children
Cousin
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My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
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Artists
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It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.
Ally Carter / Author
Uncles
Littles
Skirts
Wish
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
Jules Verne / Novelist
Uncles
Dear
Sentences
Sleep
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It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
Alexander Skarsgard / Actor
Uncles
Chaos
Dinner
Every Night
Mom Dad Always
Dinner Parties
Parties
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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 / Tennis Player
Uncles
Ideas
Philosophy
Simple
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When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.
Drake / Rapper
Uncles
Als
Green
People
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Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.
Rick Riordan / Author
Uncles
News
Sadie
Sound
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As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.
Mat Kearney / Musician
Art
Uncles
Substance
Thinking
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Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.
Brad Marchand / Ice Hockey Player
Uncles
Military
Navy
Grandfathers
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
Becky G / Singer
Uncles
Dancing
Singing
Aunts
Whoever
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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.
Agatha Christie / Novelist
Uncles
Aunt
Littles
Looks
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
Rafael Nadal / Tennis Player
Uncles
Chinese
Language
Speak
German
Languages
French
Speaks
Uncle
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I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.
Tracy Byrd / Musical Artist
Uncles
Mean
Play
Too Much
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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 / Actor
Uncles
Barbie
Dirty
Looks
Living
Tv
Old
Dial
Tends
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. / Professional Boxer
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Art Of War
Boxers
Genes
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My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del Toro / Actor
Uncles
Dad
Cousin
Grandfather
Mum
Uncle
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Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons / Comedian
Uncles
Cotton
Dean
Dinner
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Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
George R. R. Martin / Novelist
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Farewell
Said
Saws
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Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.
Charlie Murphy /
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Comedian
Grandfather
Comedians
Runs
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An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting / Musician
Uncles
Canada
Found
Guitar
Attic
Friend
Mine
Uncle
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My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.
Elizabeth Diller /
Uncles
Holocaust
Mother And Father
Aunts
Family Father Never
Family Father Mother And Father
Wiped
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I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!
Chris O'dowd / Actor
Kids
Uncles
Eight
Mean
Best Experience Great
Uncle
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
Miles Davis / Musician
Uncles
Jazz
Selling
Should
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When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!
Kevin Henkes / Writer
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Wisconsin
Cabin
Lake
Summers
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I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
Leigh-Allyn Baker / Actress
Uncles
Feminine
Roger
Spelling
Allen
Named
Richard
Lee
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If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
J. R. R. Tolkien / Writer
Uncles
Doors
Dragons
Giving
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Ray Bradbury / Writer
Uncles
Crazy
People
Two
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I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
Christopher Walken / Actor
Uncles
Father
People
Play
Myself People I Can
Closer
Fathers
Grandfathers
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Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik / Novelist
Girl
Uncles
Aunt
Boys
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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
Peter S. Beagle / Author
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Angel
Aunt
Sin
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Uncles
Cousin
Father
Mother
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There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
William Shakespeare / Poet
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Men
Cages
Taught
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My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno Mars / Singer-Songwriter
Uncles
Guitar
Habitat
Mother
Player
Sisters
Singer
Guitar Players
Just Kind
Sing
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
J. K. Rowling / Novelist
Uncles
Aunt
Hospitality
Littles
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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
Jane Smiley / Novelist
Uncles
Mom
Aunt
Grandfather
Smokers
Aunts
Smoker
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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 / Filmmaker
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Coward
Hero
Taught
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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 / Journalist
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Politician
Schwarzenegger
Ted Kennedy
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Named
Politicians
Leading
Ted
Uncle
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I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.
Christopher Titus / Comedian
Uncles
Abuse
Drug
Love Is
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Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)
Tom Angleberger / Author
Uncles
Men
Responsibility
Spiders
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Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-
Lora Leigh / Author
Uncles
Home
Mom
Daddy
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Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.
Richard Dreyfuss / Actor
Dance
Uncles
Like You
Wells
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The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.
Walter Lippmann / Writer
Uncles
Fighting
Prejudice
Soul
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No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.
Max Lucado / Author
Uncles
Teacher
Children
School
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Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.
Tom Stoppard / Playwright
Kings
Uncles
Father
Son
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It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
George Orwell / Novelist
Uncles
Aunt
England
Hands
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Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.
Ally Carter / Author
Uncles
Father
Sleep
Two
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...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
Smedley Butler / Author
Uncles
Age
War
Dark
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My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.
Gold Panda / Music Producer
Jobs
Uncles
Albums
Giving
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Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
Uncles
Leader
People
Trying
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