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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aristocrat Biography Different Family French Immigrant Interpreted Jews Sometimes Upbringing Very Were

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In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Aristocrat British Diplomat Disgusted Early Fighting Foreign Gangly Germans Go He His Quit Serve Service Serving Show Soviet Trials Would Yugoslavia

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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

~Andrew Johnson

Topics: Aristocrat Country End Off Other Rabble Well Were Would

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I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

~Benjamin Bratt

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I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

~Bob Saget

Topics: Aristocrat Because Friends Going Guy Her Kids Oldest See Three

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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

~Bob Saget

Topics: About Aristocrat Based Comedy Desperation Family Movie Now Out People Really Violent Want Which Will

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It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.

~Bob Saget

Topics: Aristocrat Clean Dirty Funny Guys Job Joke Know Like Network Night Show Stuff Tell Those Though Too Tv Video Would You

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No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: About Access American Aristocrat Artist Availability Being Big Big Thing Cast Ever Gave Important Important Part Irish Kind Loss Me Melancholy Pain Part Some Thing Think Who Would I Think

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Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

~Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Topics: Acting Although Aristocrat Away Detour Genes Hollywood Join Mother Ran Theatre Tokyo Who

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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

~Celia Imrie

Topics: Aristocrat Conqueror David Descended Diana Doctor Family Father Listed Mother Poor Scottish William

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