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

Sarah Silverman

Tags: Great Just Got

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

Chris Burke

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Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

Mark McKinney

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I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

Liam Hemsworth

Tags: Funny You Them

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

Willard Scott

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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

Victoria Osteen

Tags: Amazing You Books

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Patrick White

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My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Hill Harper

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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

R. Lee Ermey

Tags: Best God Go

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

G. Gordon Liddy

Tags: You Like Just

I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.

Tom Ellis

Tags: Family Come Her

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Ted Nugent

Tags: Dad Me Way

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

Lena Dunham

Tags: Cool Never Going

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

Mariano Rivera

Tags: Family Respect Me

I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I think that really kind of motivated us.

Amber Cope

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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Pope Francis

Tags: Beauty Wedding Well

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Gene Hackman

Tags: Good Had Been

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Robert Blake

Tags: You Going Now

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a strong emotional appeal, which was reinforced by having an uncle who was an excellent surgeon.

Renato Dulbecco

Tags: Me Who Had

Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

Meghan Trainor

Tags: Family Up Life

During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Tags: Like Were Years

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

Abraham Verghese

Tags: Medical Who Had

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

Chrissie Fit

Tags: Power Up Had

My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

Nate Ruess

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Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Herbert Hoover

Tags: Family Know Things

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

Andrew Lau

Tags: Movies You Like

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

William Wallace

Tags: Best Truth You

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Nate Ruess

Tags: Good Music Think

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

Tom Petty

Tags: Me Really Had

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

Margaret Atwood

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