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" My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. "
Clint Eastwood
War
Admirer
First
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" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "
Clint Eastwood
Problem
No Problem
Anger
" I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents. "
Tony Dungy
Look
Feel
Think
" My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. "
John F. Kennedy
Want
Government
Brother
" 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
Music
Love
" 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
Granddaughter
Job
Cleaning
" I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do. "
Clint Eastwood
Interesting
Found
Would
" Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport. "
Tony Dungy
Time
Me
Football
" My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin. "
David Mamet
Ideas
Bad
Life
" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "
John Lithgow
Good
Wife
Hard
" I'm absolutely my dad's biggest fan, and anything he wanted to do, I wanted to be a part of. "
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Fan
Wanted
Anything
" I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something. "
Olga Kurylenko
You
Childhood
Money
" 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
Thought
Soul
" I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. "
James Caan
Loved
Son
Never
" 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
" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "
Clint Eastwood
Politicians
Love
Structure
" My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well. "
Paul Pogba
Strong Man
Stubborn
Well
" 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
" Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. "
Christopher Eccleston
Down
Child
Disability
" My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' "
Zooey Deschanel
School
Character
Wolf
" I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. "
Joel Osteen
I Am
Think
Positive
" My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass. "
Thundercat
Brother
Family
Mom
" My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' "
Joe Biden
Measure Of A Man
Measure
Up
" 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. "
Ty Dolla Sign
Better
Try
Soccer
" When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Winter
Cow
Food
" I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid. "
David Lambert
Family
Mom
Language
" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "
Clint Eastwood
Rate
Information
Craving
" Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult. "
Dana Carvey
Focus
Change
Business
" I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' "
Cameron Diaz
Matter
Friends
Smoke
" My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated. "
Sundar Pichai
Used
Life
Mom
" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "
Clint Eastwood
Go
Say
Political