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" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
Gloria Swanson
Daddy
Said
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" The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. "
Bertrand Russell
Children
Our
Credit
" The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. "
Gloria Swanson
Publicity
Sunset
Me
" It is much easier to become a father than to be one. "
Kent Nerburn
Easier
Become
Dad
" Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot. "
Paris Jackson
Bad
You
See
" I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters. "
Leander Paes
Parents
Focus
Hockey
" I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous. "
Robert Redford
Remember
Fear
Kind
" Thank God I have parents who'd support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake, I'd take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home. "
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Crazy
Support
Parents
" I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way. "
Teddy Thompson
Parents
Listen
Weird
" My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent. "
Carrie Underwood
Team
Effort
Family
" When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea. "
Mike Pence
Hard Work
Work
Good
" I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music. "
Irvin Mayfield
Humanity
Music
Memory
" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "
Dean Koontz
Weird
Him
Father
" I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s. "
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
American
Heritage
Mom
" My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. "
Adrien Brody
Success
Me
Overnight Success
" My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage. "
Bruno Mars
See
You
Sharp
" I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. "
Annette Funicello
Father
Disney
Always
" My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' "
Pink
Good
Advice
Truth
" 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing. "
Ellie Goulding
Saying
Care
Parents
" My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life. "
Jess Glynne
Good Night
Life
Night
" When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!' "
Young Thug
Feet
Me
You
" My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. "
Scott McCloud
View
Rosy
Think
" I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. "
James Caan
Loved
Son
Never
" Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer. "
Lisa Frank
Me
Art
Little
" When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in. "
Priyanka Chopra
Mess
Used
Running
" Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday. "
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Guitar
Live
Musicians
" I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am. "
Vijay
Best
I Am
Me
" My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. "
Carol Burnett
Grandmother
Mother
Humor
" As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. "
Christine Keeler
White
Real
Me
" Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. "
Wade Boggs
Game
Father
Play
" My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance. "
Henry Cavill
Mother
Head
Management