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" My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done. "
Thierry Henry
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Life
" It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I. "
Chieh Huang
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" My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me. "
Jaden Smith
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" 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
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Cooking
" I was very thankful that my mother was a very strong mom. She was mom and dad. She is mom and dad. She is my hero. "
Ryan Frazier
She
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" 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
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Effort
Family
" 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 and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories. "
Dierks Bentley
You
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Meeting
" My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy. "
Chelsea Clinton
People
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" I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested! "
Thierry Henry
Young
Nice
Say
" I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college. "
Synyster Gates
Music
Me
Living
" My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. "
Beau Bridges
Dad
Teacher
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" I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. "
Ann Romney
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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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Listening
" So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence. "
Thierry Henry
Good
Say
People
" I was built up from my dad more than anyone else. "
John Wooden
Up
More
Else
" My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun. "
Wiz Khalifa
Me
Influence
Have Fun
" In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man. "
Terry Pratchett
Rich
Bath
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" My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless. "
P. J. O'Rourke
More
Haste
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" I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. "
Glenn Beck
You
Time
Stop
" My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? "
Henny Youngman
New
New York
Time
" It's an ongoing joy being a dad. "
Liam Neeson
Joy
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" My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules. "
Coy Bowles
Music
Life
Important
" Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. "
Jennifer Ellison
Shoes
Three
Doing
" 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
" Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? "
Dick Clark
Truth
Joke
Humor
" Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression. "
Thierry Henry
Past
Hurt
Progress
" I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life. "
Daniel Radcliffe
Time
Best
Moment
" I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off. "
Shakira
Teacher
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" I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do. "
Thierry Henry
Proud
Love
Know