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Cousin

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Cousin

"I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

Men Grandmother Cousin
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Cousin

"Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'"

Inspirational War Cousin
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Ziggy Marley Musician
Cousin

"My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago."

Spiritual Grandmother Cousin
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
Cousin

"In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself."

Brother Uncles Cousin
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Patrick Murray Politician
Cousin

"I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money."

Football Uncles Cousin
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
Cousin

"I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional."

Art Fall Cousin
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
Cousin

"Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better."

Cities Cousin Buffalo
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
Cousin

"I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me."

War Army Cousin
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Cousin

"A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother"

Flower Grandmother Cousin
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Cousin

"Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I was living in the house with a beautiful Mexican family for three months before I realized they weren't my cousins visiting from out of town. They were so nice. They called me "Quien es, quien es," which I thought was a beautiful name."

Beautiful Nice Cousin
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Cousin

"...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring."

Years Grateful Cousin
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Ester Dean Songwriter, Singer
Cousin

"Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing."

Kids School Cousin
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Cousin

"My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit."

Thinking Wall Cousin
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Debra Monroe Author
Cousin

"Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin.""

Book Memories Cousin
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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Cousin

"When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird."

Names Guy Cousin
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Alan King Comedian, Actor
Cousin

"My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins."

Mother Eight Cousin
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