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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
Jim Cooper
Government
Business
Uncle
Every
State
Local
Local Government
Enterprise
Cash
Except
Real
Accounting
America
Sam
Any
Size
Use
Illegal
Uses
My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.
Jimmy Kimmel
Uncle
Civilians
Clearly
Aunt
My uncle wrestled in the late '80s to early '90s, and I was too young to see his matches. However, he has always supported me in my journey, and I think that without his support, all this would not have been possible. He taught me a lot, and he is the reason that I'm a WWE wrestler.
Jinder Mahal
Journey
Me
My Journey
Uncle
Young
Think
Too
Late
Possible
Would
See
Wrestler
He
Support
Supported
Without
WWE
Matches
Always
However
Been
His
Lot
Taught
Reason
Early
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
Joe Perry
Family
Guitar
Wait
Old
Dinner
Uncle
Seven
Spend
Ukulele
Out
Would
Folk
Folk Songs
Finish
Could
Had
Songs
He
Hours
House
Him
Making
Sounds
Fender
His
Years
Version
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Eight
After
Used
Electric
Electric Guitar
Play
Amp
Portuguese
Pull
I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
Joe Piscopo
Mom
Family
Engineer
Father
Uncle
Side
Collar
Tell
Ten
Uncles
Come
Attorney
Ya
Chemical
Educated
Were
Blue
Blue-Collar
Representing
Them
Workers
Engineers
I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.
Johann Lamont
Thought
Uncle
Politician
Embarrassing
Must
Constantly
Parent
Having
Like
Often
My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont
Life
Old
Father
Uncle
Out
Crossing
Small
Freight
Sailing
His
Boats
Then
Worked
Inner
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
John C. McGinley
Old
Uncle
Living
TV
More
Dirty
Tends
Like
Look
Dial
Barbie
Ken
My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.
John Edward
Old
Thought
Uncle
Before
Saw
Seeing
Like
Supposed
Well
Because
Years
Died
Stop
Happen
Happened
Unfortunately
Which
Really
Hard
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
John Lahr
Knowledge
You
Trust
Theatre
People
Uncle
Few
Adaptive
Everyone
Must
About
Only
Remain
Pick
Know
Look
Stick
Opinion
How
His
Fix
Taste
Where
Process
Place
Sane
Production
Show
Who
Whose
Species
When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly.
John Lithgow
Me
Experience
Remember
Old
Uncle
National
Visit
Would
Vividly
Rembrandt
Picasso
Go
Years
Aunt
Just
Gallery
Washington
When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.
Juergen Teller
Christmas
Saying
Hide
Uncle
Nuremberg
Would
Scared
Dressed
He
Armchair
House
Always
Leave
Go
Child
Behind
Room
Then
Grandmother
Really
Toilet
Santa
Santa Claus
Needed
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Cancer
Uncle
Gene
Both
Almost
Died
Grandfather
Dad
When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.
Kenny Troutt
Me
Win
School
College
Uncle
Few
Bit
High
See
High School
Hours
Got
Go
Southern
Louisville
Quite
Quite A Bit
Just
Interested
Races
Then
Derby
Used
Who
Illinois
Ridge
Kentucky
University
Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.
Kevin Kwan
Mother
Uncle
Rich
Too
Everyone
Bit
Super
Obnoxious
Cousin
Snobby
Asian
Even
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Kevin Powers
Family
Army
Father
Marine Corps
Uncle
Young
Military
Soldiers
Way
Corps
Seemed
Both
Had
Adulthood
Like
WWII
Were
Arriving
Been
Male
Role
Role Models
Models
Any
Grandfathers
Served
Career
Marine
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
Kim Weston
Pressure
Uncle
No Pressure
Felt
Famous
Grandfather
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Kim Weston
Vision
Father
Uncle
Think
Definite
Having
Had
He
Him
Affected
Famous
After
Much
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.
Kreayshawn
Lie
Uncle
Hilarious
Rumor
Favorite
Bruce
Online
Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.
Lamman Rucker
Family
You
People
Value
Made
Uncle
Whatever
Community
Other
Part
Most
Call
Within
Importantly
Cultures
Godfather
Realize
Teachers
Who
Homes
Lives
Extended
Extended Family
Pulled
I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Larry Hagman
Success
Family
World
Father
Uncle
Somewhere
Whatever
Think
Everybody
Brother
Something
Colour
Had
Like
Identify
Cousin
His
Whether
Certainly
Jerk
Her
Creed
Dallas
When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive.
Lecrae
Life
Me
World
Tough
Uncle
Party
Become
Aggressive
Gangsta
Saw
Hung
Out
Magnet
Mischief
Through
He
Since
Talkative
Got
Real
Loud
Wanted
Lens
Fun
Chris
Things
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
Lena Dunham
Remember
Lawyer
Uncle
Thinking
Too
Bad
See
Could
Never
Him
Court
Going
Cool
I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes.
Leon Bridges
Suits
Uncle
Shoes
Clothes
Wear
Trousers
Like
Shiny
Shirts
Often
Vintage
Started
Playing
Night
The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.
Lisa Murkowski
Man
Business
Generation
Losing
Thought
Uncle
Community
Difficult
Too
Everyday
Fathom
He
Leaders
Known
Greatest
Greatest Generation
Truly
Chiefs
Native
Who
Ted
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.
Louise Fletcher
People
Uncle
Whatever
Guests
Those
Kids
High
Would
Dressed
Something
Over
She
Spot
Got
Were
Lot
Up
Very
Loved
Sociable
Skit
Evenings
Play
Cards
Night
Amuse
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