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I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
Adam Sandler
Me
Father
About
Moron
Driving
Since
Like
Said
Hear
Been
Lot
Times
Being
Grandfather
Four
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
Adam Schlesinger
Music
Family
Parents
Classical
About
Both
Piano
Piano Lessons
Taking
Instruments
Always
Were
Lot
Conductor
Grandfather
Grandparents
Lessons
Professor
Play
Actually
Started
My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.
Adam West
Father
Power
Few
About
Had
Trucks
Talk
Around
Lot
Quite
Wheat
Grandfather
Mule
Mules
I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Time
Family
Nothing
Books
Telling
Read
Lot
Five
Them
Grandfather
Used
Illiterate
Keep
Comparison
While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
Adnan Sami
Mother
Father
Provinces
Governor
Five
Afghanistan
While
Grandfather
Including
Originally
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
Al Jardine
World
Car
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Sold
Paris
He
Fair
Edison
Yes
Grandfather
Worked
Electric
Electric Cars
With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with little ideas.
Alessandra Mussolini
Great
Personality
Political
Made
Men
Panorama
Gigantic
Only
Onto
Ideas
Era
His
Up
Burst
Little
Grandfather
Little Men
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.
Alexandra Daddario
Politician
Every
Other
Kid
Weekend
Go
Grandfather
Used
Washington
Lived
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.
Alexis Denisof
Family
Mother
Met
Immigrants
Some
Outside
Generations
Over
New
Moscow
French
Although
Came
Were
Ireland
York
New York
Grandfather
Grandmother
Her
Early
Early 20s
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
Aliko Dangote
Death
Time
Man
Father
Politician
Nut
Great-Grandfather
Trader
His
West
Africa
Grandfather
Richest
Richest Man
Businessman
Actually
Raised
I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.
Allison Schroeder
Engineer
Software
Mercury
Prototype
NASA
Years
Up
Five
Grew
Literally
Grandfather
Cape
Grandmother
Playing
I was blessed enough to talk to my grandfather the night before he passed, and he told me that everything was going to be okay, and I know he wanted me continue and do my best, be happy, and that's what keeps me going.
Ally Brooke
Best
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Blessed
Before
Enough
Everything
Okay
He
Know
Talk
Passed
Continue
Going
Wanted
Grandfather
Keeps
Night
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
Alveda King
Family
Me
Mother
Secret
Saw
Dream
Dreamer
Martin
Prophetic
Had
He
Perfectly
Like
Said
Stopped
Wanted
Grandfather
Her
Basically
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!
Amber Rose
Love
Day
Great
Family
Blessed
Skin
Too
Sun
Pretty
Clear
Over
Look
Understatement
Owe
Being
Grandfather
Cape
Whole
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Amin Maalouf
Youth
Others
Uncles
Idea
Like
Unthinkable
Cuba
Go
Lebanon
Left
Began
Australia
America
Egypt
Realise
Moving
Might
Grandfather
Then
Who
I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.
Amiri Baraka
Name
Grandfather
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Amish Tripathi
Mathematics
Home
Great
Family
Father
Temple
Also
Hindu
Lord
Taught
Grandfather
Dedicated
University
I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
Aneurin Barnard
Time
Age
Father
Sit
Down
Would
Pretended
About
Daydream
Like
Always
Just
Being
Stories
Movies
Grandfather
Used
Four
Watch
When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
Angel Di Maria
Man
World
Old
Will
Tell
Hopefully
About
League
Most
Messi
Am
Bedtime
Cup
Won
Lionel
Stories
Grandchildren
Them
Grandfather
Old Man
Used
World Cup
Play
Champions
Champions League
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
Annette Bening
Family
Old
Almost
Almost All
Very
Grandfather
Who
Lucky
Lived
I did lose my grandfather. He was special. He would tell me jokes, and he'd always be there to support me. I do wish I'd get the chance to see him again, because he was very special to my heart.
Anthony Gonzalez
Me
Jokes
Heart
Wish
Lose
Tell
Would
See
He
Support
Him
Because
Always
Very
Get
Did
Again
Grandfather
Special
Chance
With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.
Anthony Horowitz
Myself
Happy
Father
Thought
Year
Every
Think
Father Figure
Further
Kids
Distressed
Audience
Passes
Been
Target
Get
While
Little
Grandfather
Figure
Away
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
War
Me
History
People
World
Remember
First
Carnage
Worst
Vividly
About
Tend
First World
First World War
Forget
Human
Stories
Which
Grandfather
Human History
World War
Henry Winkler is the most lovable man. He is like everybody's favorite grandfather.
Ari Graynor
Man
Everybody
Favorite
He
Like
Most
Lovable
Grandfather
Henry
My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.
Ariel Sharon
Myself
Parents
Facing
Terror
Grandfather
It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
Armand Deutsch
Me
Crime
Made
Prominence
Out
Mystery
Had
Ideal
Prime
Prospect
Singled
His
Julius
Board
Grandfather
Richard
Choice
Chairman
Why
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