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I've been truly protected by my uncles. -- will.i.am
I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens. -- Dolly Parton
You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains. -- Two Chainz
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. -- Kim Weston
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. -- David Amram
My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house. -- Lil Romeo
Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love. -- Mark McKinney
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. -- Morena Baccarin
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious. -- Kreayshawn
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them. -- Dolly Parton
My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father. -- Ed Bradley
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. -- Hyder Akbar
You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle. -- Demetri Martin
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist. -- Chuck Jones
Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle. -- Redd Foxx
To me, beer tastes like piss. Maybe that's why I only enjoy it in the shower with my uncle. -- Jarod Kintz
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. -- Patrick White
Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them. -- Pastor Maldonado
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. -- John Boehner
Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. -- Deon Cole
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing. -- George H. W. Bush
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. -- King Krule
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) -- Tina Fey
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. -- Jenny Nimmo
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
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. -- Robert Duvall
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you think the human body is beautiful, you haven't met my uncle Melvin. His cam session starts at 6:00 if you wanna see. -- Jarod Kintz
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. -- Wyclef Jean
I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world. -- Laurence Fox
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
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
The alien in my uncle hand obviously taken full control. Soon, it would claw its way out of his stomach and tap dance across my bed -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
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
If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check. -- Woody Allen
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. -- Lloyd Alexander
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
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
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. -- Mike Shinoda
When I got home from my war, my uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he bellowed, 'You're a MAN now!'I damn near killed my first German. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies. -- Grant Show
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. -- Mel Torme
I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity, -- Pooja Bhatt
i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm) -- e. e. cummings
Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house. -- Marcel Proust
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
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
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
My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny. -- Louis C. K.
I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes. -- Leon Bridges
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy -- Neal Shusterman
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. -- Ronnie Milsap
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people. -- Dichen Lachman
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
With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell. -- Jarod Kintz
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri. -- Karolyn Grimes
I'm very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I'm glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name. -- Natalie MacMaster
I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United! -- Ian Brown
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
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson. -- Charlotte Charke
A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you -- Miriam Toews
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him. -- Estelle
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth. -- Jules Verne
When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle. -- Sofia Boutella
My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. -- Greg Kinnear
My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny, my uncle's really funny, everyone's really funny. You have to be quick, otherwise you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp. -- Noel Fielding
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
There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?' -- James Bay
I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents. -- RJ Mitte
[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
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. -- Action Bronson
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then. -- Pete Townshend
I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there. -- Elizabeth Banks
If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe. -- Megan Whalen Turner
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
On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager to serve. -- Thomas Perez
It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off. -- George Carlin
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book. -- William Monahan
There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die. -- Marcel Pagnol
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters. -- Jamie Wyeth
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business. -- Rick Astley
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances. -- Megan Whalen Turner
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it. -- Louise Fletcher
Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda, -- Alveda King
One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it a little too much. But now I use one foot, and I do not run into stuff - at least I try not to. -- RJ Mitte
Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up. -- Jacob Latimore
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
Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants. -- Corneille Ewango
My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians. -- Jimmy Kimmel
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. -- Fred Allen
My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. -- Robert Duvall
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago. -- George Gobel
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- Dave Van Ronk
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them. -- Liam Hemsworth
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me. -- Hill Harper
My uncle used to love me, but she died. -- Roger Miller
My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me. -- Charles Todd
I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force. -- Desi Arnaz
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus. -- Joanna Lumley
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants. -- Thom Yorke
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. -- David Amram
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? -- Margaret Smith
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president. -- Alveda King
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. -- P. G. Wodehouse
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. -- Chuck Nevitt
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. -- James Earl Jones
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. -- Andy Garcia
I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle. -- Jonathan Tisch
And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass. -- Eoin Colfer
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. -- Alan Furst
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. -- Moby

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