My Brother Quotes - Page 28

• Growing up with my brothers, I was like an accompanying mascot to them. The whole heritage and culture of soundsystems is all in my blood y'know? Then obviously from DJing, I just went onto building my own sound and producing my own music.

  Jazzie B

  Brother, Growing Up, Culture

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• I was Gator in Jungle Fever, and Chris Rock played Pookie, and those showed two very different dynamics of what crackheads were. Mine was more about the family relationships. So when people sat there and got that, they can sit there and say, "Oh, man, that's my friend." Or "That's my brother." Or cousin or somebody. They empathize, or they had something that they could latch onto, in that particular movie, of my story, and go with it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cousin, Brother, Men

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• I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

  Muhammad Ali

  Brother, Years, Figures

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• My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

  Tori Amos

  Brother, Years, Musician

  "What I know about men". Interview with Adam Mattera, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Home, Angel

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• I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Writing, Thinking

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• My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Brother, Athlete, Way

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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Rocks, Albums

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• My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Writing, Kids

  "Bacon Brothers Q&A: Getting the Band Back Together". Interview with Zach Dionne, www.billboard.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Brother, Independent, Voting

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'McCain can bring change'". Interview with Sarika Dani, www.today.com. October 24, 2008.

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• We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Brother, Father, Military

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• Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

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• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

  Sara Blakely

  Brother, Dad, Father

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• My brother is really, really slow.

  Usain Bolt

  Brother

  "Usain Bolt: Fast and loose". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

  David Bowie

  Brother, People, Majority

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House

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• I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Boys, Thinking

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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• I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Kids, Play

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

  Beau Bridges

  Sports, Brother, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

  Jeff Bridges

  Inspirational, Mother, Teacher

  "The Dude will see you now" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

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• The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

  Drew Carey

  Brother, Games, Firsts

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Betrayal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Cousin, Brother, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Brother, Hero, Writing

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• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  Vin Diesel

  Brother, Children, Lunch

  "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

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