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" Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad. "
Roberto Alomar
Dad
Baseball
Learned
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Denis Leary
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Game
Great
" Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team. "
Jodi Benson
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Team
" I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life. "
Daniel Radcliffe
Time
Best
Moment
" I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. "
Mark Viduka
Humble
Know
You
" I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad. "
Woody Harrelson
Time
Regret
Too Much
" I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. "
Steven Spielberg
Feeling
Camera
Nervous
" Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. "
Jennifer Ellison
Shoes
Three
Doing
" My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.' "
Daisy Donovan
Change
People
Said
" I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college. "
Synyster Gates
Music
Me
Living
" Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. "
Aldous Huxley
Wish
Rebellious
Disillusioned
" There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay. "
Nick Saban
Team
Me
Home
" I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.' "
Jesse McCartney
Sports
Important
Me
" All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly. "
Tony Dungy
Good
Coaching
Time
" I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. "
Drake
Day
Whenever
Great
" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "
Margaret Mead
Social
Accidents
Biological
" My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eventually, I got a bat and a real ball and played around to see if I could hit left-handed. "
Ben Zobrist
Bat
Got
Real
" My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood. "
Michelle Dockery
Live
Growing
Happy
" My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems. "
Rony Abovitz
Life
Support
Mom
" I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special. "
Domhnall Gleeson
Got
Special
Part
" My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. "
Mitt Romney
Love
Parenting
Mom
" I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do. "
Michelle Obama
Remember
School
Top
" Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. "
Cindy Crawford
Father
Become
Husband
" They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends. "
Sebastian Bach
Friends
Had
Me
" I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I've changed in different ways. I - but, like, my comedy hasn't changed. And I've also seen people do that where you become this - you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you're trying to be a role model. "
Bill Burr
Think
People
You
" My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Truck
Early
Back
" I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous. "
Maika Monroe
Dangerous
Him
Kite
" I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. "
Jon Hamm
Color
Jewelry
Life
" It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. "
Vanessa Kerry
Mean
Time
Story
" I've always liked long hair. My dad's always had long hair, but he always tells me, 'I never had it in a ponytail.' And I say to him, 'You weren't an England goalie either, were ya.' "
David Seaman
Say
Me
Long
" I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work. "
Kat Dennings
Holiday
About
Had