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" Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could. "
Amanda de Cadenet
Me
Taught
Brother
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" My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit. "
DeMar DeRozan
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She
Play
" When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years. "
Frank Butler
Dumb
Find
Got
" I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' "
Flea
Animal
Music
Love
" My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since. "
Hugh Laurie
Soon
Bike
First
" My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. "
Jamie Oliver
Memories
Eating
Cooking
" My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. "
Spike Milligan
Influence
Father
Profound
" 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind. "
Jenna Blum
Survivor
Memories
Daily
" '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
" 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
" My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. "
Will Ferrell
Unique
Kid
Time
" I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15. "
Daniel Woodrell
Lived
West
Born
" I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy. "
Cody Horn
Life
Kind
Smart
" I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family. "
Ricky Martin
Family
Father
Relationship
" I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person. "
Tiffany Trump
Father
Motivational
Beach
" My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.' "
Bruce Dickinson
World
You
Care
" I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun. "
Joey Fatone
Food
Wife
Time
" I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person. "
Sinead Burke
Person
Height
Children
" I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy. "
Martha MacIsaac
Together
Maturity
Mom
" My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor. "
Albert Pujols
Breakfast
Sometimes
Dinner
" Man, I love being a dad. It's super fun. "
Future
Super
Fun
Love
" My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really. "
Joanne Froggatt
Used
Kind
Milk
" I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. "
Diane Lane
People
Me
Father
" Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. "
Steve Irwin
Passionate
Boy
Enough
" I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside. "
Luke Bryan
You
Day
Doing
" And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet. "
Jackson Browne
Perfect
Play
Thought
" In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail. "
Robert Kiyosaki
Rich
Hate
Home
" We've grown up watching Dad setting and breaking records - my brother Sam was born when Dad was halfway across the Atlantic, going after a record. "
Holly Branson
Watching
Halfway
Going
" My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. "
Bill Kreutzmann
Listening
Black
Loved
" I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from. "
Coy Bowles
Great
Best
Father
" My role model is my dad. "
Seann William Scott
Father's Day
Model
Role Model