“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.” EnoughFeetBrotherMetsPureIslandsCoincidenceVirginsInventorRamaDiving Author:Frederick Lenz
“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.” PeopleFirstsLittlesSaidCharacterBigsGuyEnjoyAnswersDoorsStageBrotherMetsBandDiedMovedLegendsExcessBrothers And SistersGarageLegendaryHendrix Author:Alice Cooper
“With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.” FirstsKindTwoStoriesDreamWantedNamesCompanyWrittenBrotherMetsPagesInspiredProductionsListsWhy NotMarieTwo Brothers Author:Eric Cantona
“I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.” PeopleTryingKindOrderStudyBrotherMetsSpeechAll KindsMinistersTapeDocumentariesDialectAudioCassettes Author:Forest Whitaker
“We met the Jonas Brothers. Nick [Jonas] is so cute ... I don't think Reggie will get mad because [Nick] is, like, I really shouldn't say he's cute. It's a little inappropriate!” ThinkingLittlesBrotherMetsMadCuteInappropriateJonas Brothers Author:Kim Kardashian
“I met some brothers out from Canada recently who are real cool people. They make Spanish-language music called Cold Blue and I met then at a Lat-Rap conference and they seem like real good peoples from Central America... and that's what it is. It's just based on mutual respect. So when I meet people like that I'm like, "if y'all going to be real with me, I'm going to be real with y'all" and that's all it takes.” PeopleIfsRealSeemsAmericaLanguageBrotherColdMetsBlueRapCanadaMutualGood PeopleBeing RealConferencesMutual RespectCentral AmericaCool PeopleSpanish Language Author:Immortal Technique
“Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsPersonsImportantStarsCareersBrotherMetsMy BrotherBottlesMovie StarRocketsImportant PersonCareer ChangeBottle Rocket Author:Luke Wilson
“I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had never met him, the secretary of Education. We had a wonderful talk. And I had told him quite explicitly education is a right, it's not a race to the top.” ThinkingRaceWonderfulBrotherMetsBlessedDearSecretaryDuncanDear Brother Author:Cornel West
“I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.” NeedsYearsMindHumansDifficultMy OwnForgetLevelsStrangeBrotherMetsConcernConcernedYears AgoFundamentalsGenuineHuman MindBrothers And SistersForget ItGenuine ConcernDifficult Experiences Author:Dalai Lama
“My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.” TryingJobsParentMorningFiguresBrotherMetsDecidedHarderMy BrotherBreakfastWeekendArrested Author:Bill Ayers
“I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.” IfsKindChildrenPersonsHomeWould BeUnderstandingDoorsBrotherMetsOne DayPhotographerFriendlyDetroitKind Person Author:Patti Smith
“I'm not going to tell you I know George W. Bush intimately. I'm not going to tell you we're best friends. I'll tell you I met him on a number of occasions. You know what? George W. Bush is a very nice guy. Very funny guy. His wife is a very nice woman; I thought she was a great first lady. George [W.] Bush was the worst president in the history of the United States of America... The issue is not Bernie Sanders. The issue is the Koch brothers. The issue is who owns America.” KnowsFirstsStatesAmericaGuyPresidentUnitedNumbersUnited StatesIssuesNiceWifeWorstBrotherMetsOccasionsUnited States Of AmericaVery NiceFirst LadyNice GuyFunny Guy Author:Bernie Sanders
“I, like anybody whoever met Eric Wright, was mesmerized & inspired. Eric was more like a big brother to me, to all of us. I always think to myself, if there was no Ruthless, West Coast hip hop would not have been as big.” IfsThinkingHas BeensBigsBrotherMetsWestInspiredHip HopHipsHopsCoastRuthlessEricWest CoastMesmerized Author:Kokane
“I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.” MenBrotherMetsHundredMy BrotherDelhi Author:Pope Paul VI