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My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.
Trombone Shorty
Brother
Influence
Influenced
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Grandfather
I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.
Tyson Chandler
Work
Hard Work
Me
You
Age
Matter
Animals
Farm
Older
Baby
Some
Crops
About
Had
Driving
Feed
Pigs
How
Cows
Than
Grandfather
Then
Used
Hard
Dedicated
Help
Early
Started
Early Age
Raising
When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
Valerie June
Me
Guitar
Back
Guilty
Promised
Give
Give Me
Never
Had
He
Him
Learn
Felt
Always
His
Did
Died
Closet
Grandfather
Then
Play
Started
Playing
My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
Vikram Rohit Shetty
God
Me
Made
Devil
Films
Say
Alive
Would
He
Make
Wonder
Grandfather
My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.
Vincent Schiavelli
Before
Homework
Other
Table
Kitchen
Kitchen Table
He
Him
Chef
Came
End
Up
America
Grew
While
Grandfather
Used
Cooked
Sicily
I want to say almost 100% Cubans who get mad at you are Cubans who live in Miami. And they all live comfortably in Miami. They can all go online and tell you what happened to your grandfather. In Cuba, it's a totally different thing. They can't wait for you to come. They're energized. They love your music. They want to see something new.
Walshy Fire
Love
Music
You
Wait
Live
Say
Mad
Tell
See
Totally
Something
Online
Something New
Almost
New
Come
Cuba
Cuban
Comfortably
Go
Miami
Get
Different
Want
Happened
Grandfather
Your
Who
Different Thing
Thing
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
Whitley Strieber
Christmas
Me
Better
Result
First
Worse
Carol
Spirits
Write
Had
Put
Read
Years
Years Ago
Began
Grandfather
Plan
Grandson
Copy
Desk
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
William Gaddis
World
Binary
Live
Other
Birth
Ancestors
See
Entire
Computer
Piano
Yes
Than
Option
Refuge
Where
Grandfather
Player
Nightmare
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'
William Least Heat-Moon
Life
Personality
Distinctive
Immediately
Spirit
More
River
Missouri
Does
Am
Been
Source
Than
Any
Grandfather
Traveler
Presents
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
Yancy Butler
Family
Theatre
Mother
Side
Broadway
Neil
General
Simon
General Manager
Manager
Grandfather
Production
Shows
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono
Family
Important
Wealthy
Born
Emperor
Were
Very
Japan
Grandfather
Descendant
My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Alone
Time
History
Invention
First
Ocean
Back
Air
Out
Diving
Had
Allowed
He
Freely
First Time
Tested
Been
His
Source
Very
Pioneer
Jacques
Which
Little
Grandfather
Scuba
Exploration
Explored
Swim
Captured
Film
Portable
Humans
My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.
Mathew Knowles
Entrepreneur
Mother
Marion
Kid
Someone
Dave
Maiden
He
Name
Looked
She
Cherokee
Lot
Up
Owned
African
Land
Grandfather
Acres
Alabama
Last
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
Rand Paul
Decision
National
Young
Older
Other
Along
Protest
American
Formed
Board
Them
Grandfather
Require
When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'
Thomas Kean, Jr.
Son
Father
First
Congress
State
Ran
Run
Headline
Said
Grandfather
Assembly
My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.
Donald Trump, Jr.
Life
Needs
Father
Focus
Guy
Attention
Boy
Got
His
Lot
Very
Paternal
Wants
Grandfather
Hardworking
I don't want to do a biopic. If there was one biopic I would do, it would be about my grandfather, the late N. T. Rama Rao. But his aura and charisma is completely different, and I am no match for him.
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
I Am
Late
Would
Would-Be
Charisma
About
Him
T
Match
Am
His
Aura
Different
Want
Grandfather
When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.
Dolores O'Riordan
You
Problems
Band
Say
One Of The Problems
See
Tour
Never
Goodbye
Rock
Got
Rock Band
Go
Die
Died
Being
Loved
Loved Ones
Them
Grandfather
Your
Even
Away
Funeral
My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.
John Kani
Great
Me
History
Our
Battles
About
Through
His
Stories
Grandfather
The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.
Nicholas Soames
Harry
Examination
Bears
Between
Close
Grandfather
Comparison
I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica. It's a pretty big family I'll have there.
Errol Spence Jr.
Family
Big
Side
Brother
Pretty
Got
Big Family
Moved
Jamaica
Grandfather
Dad
I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.
Nicholas Soames
Age
Brilliant
Twitter
Gifted
Minister
Would
Had
He
Prime
Prime Minister
Sure
Been
Quite
Grandfather
Communicator
Used
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Memories
Together
Learning
Age
Passion
Ocean
Young
Stems
Very
Legendary
Jacques
Young Age
Stories
Grandfather
Explorer
Connected
Actually
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Conservation
In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.
Marco Rubio
First
Convention
Republican
Grandfather
Watched
My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my grandfather, and I never saw them have a cross word.
John Carter Cash
Word
Father
Disrespect
Saw
Respectful
Cross
Never
Him
Known
Because
Always
Wanted
Them
Grandfather
Really
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
Salman Rushdie
Family
Me
Doctor
Mother
Father
Met
Unlike
Say
Would
Indian
Religious
He
Wisest
Very
Person
Lama
Grandfather
Ever
Deeply
Dalai
Dalai Lama
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