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" My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. "
Thomas Jane
Businessman
Ability
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" I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him. "
Claire Danes
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" My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. "
Ellen DeGeneres
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God
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" And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself. "
Jennie Finch
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Believe In Yourself
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" Dad was always working in the living room. There was no distinction between work and life - it was the same thing. "
Holly Branson
Working
Life
Always
" I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition. "
Miranda Kerr
Health
World
People
" Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday. "
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Guitar
Live
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" Governor Pawlenty has the same conservative convictions and executive experience I admire in my dad. "
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Same
Experience
Admire
" I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn. "
Jonathan Groff
Halloween
Lipstick
Production
" But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. "
Tony Dungy
Believe
Who
Children
" As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. "
Jim Gaffigan
Parenting
Personality
Wife
" I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I've changed in different ways. I - but, like, my comedy hasn't changed. And I've also seen people do that where you become this - you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you're trying to be a role model. "
Bill Burr
Think
People
You
" I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind. "
Michael Rosenbaum
Yellow
Where
Want
" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "
King Tuff
Music
College
Listening
" My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. "
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Friends
Always
Never
" If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to. "
Eric San
American
Rest
Think
" When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit. "
Cara Delevingne
Sit
Age
Thought
" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "
Daveed Diggs
Black
White
Young
" Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy. "
Thomas Jane
Training
Last
Career
" All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly. "
Tony Dungy
Good
Coaching
Time
" My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised. "
Charlie Haden
Music
Over
Family
" My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems. "
Rony Abovitz
Life
Support
Mom
" I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved. "
Russell Wilson
Sunday
Me
Saying
" I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids. "
Chris O'Donnell
Work Hard
Short
Day
" Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had. "
Kalpana Chawla
Ask
Club
Flying
" My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. "
Sam Brownback
Farmer
Dad
Wanted
" My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up. "
Jake Tapper
Fight
Mom
Growing Up
" The child is father of the man. "
William Wordsworth
Father
Child
Man
" To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do. "
Thomas Jane
Stand
Nothing
Film
" A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "
Enid Bagnold
Baby
Always
Woman
" I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. "
Michael Douglas
While
Could
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