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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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My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

~Erika Christensen

Topics: Attendant Flight Grandfather Grandmother Had How License Met Mother Pilot

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Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

~Ethan Peck

Topics: Am Anything Assume Because Best Difficult Digest Experience Fact Fund Good Grandfather Had Kid May Me Never Others People See Some Some People Spoilt Think Trust While Who Work I Am

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I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed because I was such a big fan of '007.' But I was young, and I didn't have a perception of what celebrity was or who my grandfather was... I still don't, really.

~Ethan Peck

Topics: Because Being Big Big Fan Boy Celebrity Fan Grandfather House Impressed Meeting Moore Perception Really Remember Roger Still Who Young I Remember

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I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.

~Ethan Peck

Topics: Away Before Deeply Got Grandfather He Inspires Know Me More Myself Never Passed Search Truly Understand

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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

~Felicia Day

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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

~Fidel Castro

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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

~Flula Borg

Topics: About Bread Delicious Dish Four Germany Grandfather Happy Love Make Myself Pets Poodle Song Strange Techno Things Turkish Two Which Wrote I Love

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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

~Forest Whitaker

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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

~Frances Mayes

Topics: Born Cotton Deeply Down Family Felt Fitzgerald Georgia Grandfather Grew Many Mayor Mill Ran Rooted South Spot Times Town Up Way I Was Born

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