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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
You
Gun
Lie
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" 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.
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" When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that. "
Zach LaVine
Community
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" My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day. "
Bryce Harper
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" My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. "
Larry Elder
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" But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. "
Herbie Hancock
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Much
" I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad! "
Doreen Cronin
Time
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" Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me. "
David Boreanaz
Health
Growing Up
Me
" It's an ongoing joy being a dad. "
Liam Neeson
Joy
Father's Day
Dad
" Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination. "
Nell Newman
You
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Soul
" I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way. "
Molly Quinn
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" Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. "
Gerard Way
Mom
World
Want
" My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true. "
Juliana Hatfield
" I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business. "
Portia Doubleday
Family
Work
Sister
" I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things! "
Amy Chua
Me
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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
" I remember, the first time I gave Dad a proper hug, it was big. "
Nick Cummins
First
Hug
Remember
" I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants! "
Buddy Valastro
Daughter
Restaurant
Open
" I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. "
Imelda Marcos
Me
Father
Back
" My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant. "
Pete Gallego
Help
Together
Home
" Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. "
Steve Irwin
Passionate
Boy
Enough
" None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward. "
Sanjay Dutt
Movies
Thought
Forward
" I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside. "
Luke Bryan
You
Day
Doing
" I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus. "
Tony Evans
Me
Family
City
" At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad? "
Alberto Gonzales
Day
Me
End Of The Day
" I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. "
Chely Wright
Him
He
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" My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations. "
Colin Kaepernick
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" I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. "
Bear Grylls
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Freedom
" 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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" 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
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" Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth. "
Lisa Marie Presley
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