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• 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

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• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  Gene Hackman

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• I’m not that hands-on as a grandfather.

  Alan Sugar

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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

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• Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather’s cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  Parker Posey

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• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  Emanuel Celler

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• My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

  Emanuel Celler

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• My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

  Emmitt Smith

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• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

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• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

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• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother. That’s the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

  Lillian Gish

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• Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

  William Feather

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• I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It’s a reality.

  Lenny Kravitz

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• More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

  James Earl Jones

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