#uncle

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

#all day #break #broadway #could #day

As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit. ↗

— Mark Sanchez

#avoid #best #break #competitive #down

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#caesar #claudius #consequently #emperor #great

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#artists #aunts #bohemian #extended #group

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

#citizens #class #class citizens #dad #japanese

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? ↗

— Margaret Smith

#angry #had #his #looking #man

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#get #grandfathers #i #offers #often

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. ↗

— George Tenet

#definition #deliberately #deny #hidden #hope

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dudley-dursley #food #uncle-vernon #diet

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house. ↗

— Lil' Romeo

#dad #house #studio #uncles #used