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" I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. "
Drake
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Whenever
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" My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh. "
Dominic Monaghan
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" I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. "
Charley Pride
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" Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. "
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" Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues. "
James Dobson
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" In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to. "
Post Malone
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" It's an ongoing joy being a dad. "
Liam Neeson
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" When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit. "
Cara Delevingne
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Age
Thought
" 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
" My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. "
Ben Affleck
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Mother
School
" Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through. "
Suriya
You
Start
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" I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time. "
Brad Goreski
Doubt
Time
People
" Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home. "
Don Everly
Learning
Fool
Me
" I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry. "
Steven Gerrard
Always
Building
Things
" I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day. "
Monica Seles
Lost
Early
Day
" Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Army
Looking
Home
" I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking. "
Ivanka Trump
Him
Thinking
Think
" In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it. "
Eliot Sumner
Go
Hospital
Me
" To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football. "
Thierry Henry
Me
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Pushed
" My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year. "
Draymond Green
Skills
Mindset
Always
" '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 parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. "
James Woods
Love
Loved
Mother
" Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad. "
Dan Auerbach
Parents
Music
Always
" My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children. "
Laila Ali
Great
Children
Walk
" My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. "
Drake
Great
Talented
Writer
" 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
" The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. "
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" If you've witnessed bullying or if you're being bullied, tell somebody you trust. Tell mom and dad. Tell your counselors or your coaches. Tell your teachers. Tell an adult who you trust. "
Stephanie McMahon
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Mom
You
" I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. "
Max Lucado
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" Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void. "
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" I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special. "
Meghan Markle
Me
Time
Pen