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" My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home. "
Patty Loveless
Missed
Smiling
Home
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" Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer. "
David Benioff
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Memories
Movies
" The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. "
Keith Urban
Pride
Big
House
" I have my dad's shape. No booty. "
Queen Latifah
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Shape
" My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well. "
Paul Pogba
Strong Man
Stubborn
Well
" 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 a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. "
Rodney Atkins
Love
Time
Family
" My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. "
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Army
Me
Life
" 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. "
Justin Trudeau
Solar
Person
Deep
" Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. "
Wayne Rooney
You
Look
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" My first pet at home in Edinburgh was a dog my dad had called Glen. He was a small sheepdog and went with my dad every day to work as manager of a cooking centre, which made the children's lunches for schools. "
Ronnie Corbett
Work
Children
Pet
" I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad. "
Lady Gaga
Hope
Good
Love
" Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist. "
Christopher Guest
Child
London
Doing
" My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them. "
Sonakshi Sinha
Believe
Blame
I Am
" My father loved people, children and pets. "
Tony Visconti
Pets
Children
Loved
" My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. "
Simon Newcomb
Most
Dad
Father
" 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
Food
Healing
Medicine
" I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel. "
Courtney Love
Her
Mean
Me
" I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work. "
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Work
Mother
Interfere
" There's no way to measure or properly express what a family like mine can mean. Mom, Dad, Cooper, Eli, extended family, you are the best. "
Peyton Manning
Measure
You
Mom
" My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. "
Marco Rubio
Financial
Life
People
" My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. "
Star Jones
Me
You
Words
" If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.' "
Joanna Gaines
Age
Fun
Good
" Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole. "
Eric Trump
Long
People
Construction
" My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.' "
Jesse McCartney
Best
Mother
Money
" I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts. "
Carlos Ponce
Days
Different
School
" People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad. "
Sinead Burke
Never
People
Me
" 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
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Love
" 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
" The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be. "
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Better
Try
Soccer
" Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt. "
Frank Bruno
You
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