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" I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives. "
Akon
Many
Dad
Believe
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" And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. "
David Bowie
Thought
Band
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" When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S. "
Sonita Alizadeh
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" I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio. "
Megan Nicole
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Fire
" I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge. "
Michael Trucco
Growing Up
Mirror
Home
" Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. "
Jay Leno
Hills
Funny
Day
" Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. "
Amy Heckerling
Care
Mothers
Need
" One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. "
Camryn Manheim
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Me
Memories
" As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great. "
Akon
Great
Quality
People
" Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later. "
Steven Ford
Football
Integrity
Mother
" When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that. "
Scott Adkins
Arts
Brother
Like
" When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends. "
Steve-O
Friends
Won
Camera
" Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style. "
Sofia Coppola
My Own
I Am
Style
" 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
" 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 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 dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense. "
Alain de Botton
Idiots
Believe
Out
" 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
" My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. "
Al Pacino
College
World
War
" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
Bill Gates
Mom
Interesting
Very
" My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army. "
James Blunt
Grandparents
Army
Time
" Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. "
Horace
Will
You
Your
" I like eating the right way, doing things the right way. I never had to have my dad come and say, 'Hey, you have to get back to the gym' or, 'Hey, you're eating wrong.' "
Bryce Harper
You
Say
Gym
" I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. "
Robert Mapplethorpe
" I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband. "
David Beckham
Lucky
Myself
End
" Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. "
Michael Reagan
Shining
Father
City
" I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud. "
Bonnie Bassler
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Happy
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" I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. "
Beyonce Knowles
Family
Parents
School
" My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for. "
Callie Hernandez
Always
Good Things
Good
" My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now. "
Cameron Diaz
Challenge
Me
Fight
" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
Kirby Smart
Like
Know
Your