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" 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
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" When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left. "
Joe Frazier
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" I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner. "
Bobby Bowden
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" My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold. "
Rupi Kaur
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" I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy. "
Joey Kramer
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" My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not. "
Michael Douglas
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" 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
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" I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. "
Hilary Duff
Wishes
Me
Know
" 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
" When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.' "
Pat Summitt
Every Day
Farm
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" Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. "
Oliver Hudson
Just
Anything
Me
" You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. "
Gary Vaynerchuk
Business
Family
Patience
" Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. "
Tim Allen
Mom
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Humor
" I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy! "
Pete Davidson
Crazy
Thought
Think
" 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
" My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough. "
Katee Sackhoff
Said
Work Hard
Work
" It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. "
Dawn French
Myself
Life
Father
" I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it. "
Maika Monroe
Independence
Loved
Day
" My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do. "
Tony Hawk
Son
True
Work
" My role model is my dad. "
Seann William Scott
Father's Day
Model
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" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "
William Hurt
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Father
Successful
" 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
" 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. "
Oliver North
Need
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War
" I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner. "
Summer Sanders
Pool
Swimming
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" My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye. "
Dani Shapiro
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Car
Death
" 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
Music
Love
Fire
" My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home. "
Patty Loveless
Missed
Smiling
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" My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot. "
Fred Armisen
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" When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know. "
Al Roker
Try
Need
Mother
" Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. "
Sam Ewing
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Father
" A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing. "
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