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When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother.
George Foreman

Love, Time, Great

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
Cate Blanchett

Age, Women, Great

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Buffalo Bill

Great, Death, Whole

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.
Mike Shinoda

Music, Different, Remember

I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
Chloe Sevigny

Both, Yes, Troubled

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
Reba McEntire

Leaving, Mirror, View

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
Tim Roth

Father, Real, Person

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'
Tommy Chong

Woman, Black, Kids

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
Godfrey Reggio

Justice, Person, Young

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
Sara Blakely

Home, Dad, Father

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
Ellie Goulding

Marriage, Dad, Parents

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
Ellie Goulding

Why, Guitar, Playing

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
Vin Diesel

Family, Children, Sister

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
Hesiod

Deal, Pleasant, Witness

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod

Equal, Companion

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
Gene Tierney

Mother, Different, Sister

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
Eddie Izzard

Yourself, Feelings, Play

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.
Giada De Laurentiis

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen

Age, Good, America

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!
Lindsay Lohan

Help, Him, Become

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Maya Lin

Thought, Less, Gender

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
Adam Carolla

Basketball, Why, Team

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Joe Frazier

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan

Life, Truth, Help

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
Louis Farrakhan

Fight, Everything, Thought

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
Gwen Stefani

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
Gwen Stefani

Family, Mom, Leader

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
Vanessa Hudgens

Nothing, May, Happen

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
Shimon Peres

Mother, Her, Read

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