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" My father loved people, children and pets. "
Tony Visconti
Pets
Children
Loved
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" My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer. "
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" I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
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" When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. "
Lou Brock
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" An angry father is most cruel towards himself. "
Publilius Syrus
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" I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!' "
Eamonn Walker
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Best
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" I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.' "
Norm MacDonald
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" All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service. "
Oliver North
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High School
War
" I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California. "
Michael B. Jordan
Born
Two
California
" I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad. "
Brian J. White
Mom
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She
" Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole! "
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Mom
Door
Good
" I always wanted what Mom and Dad had. "
Kim Kardashian
Had
Always
Wanted
" My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life. "
Jess Glynne
Good Night
Life
Night
" When one has not had a good father, one must create one. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good Father
Father
Good
" My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. "
Cindy Sherman
He
Talk
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" One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom. "
Gnash
Angry
Mom
Me
" I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy. "
Barry White
You
Going
Trip
" My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' "
Bobby Knight
Ride
Positive
Tough
" I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula. "
Brandon Lee
Like
Fire
Within
" I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Who
Born
Buildings
" I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?' "
Kenneth Branagh
First
You
Book
" I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! "
David Bowie
Me
I Am
Makeup
" 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 dad was traveling a lot, but when he would come home and cook, he'd cook pizza. "
Hilary Knight
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He
Pizza
" Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket. "
Chris Stapleton
Generation
Man
Out
" My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. "
Damon Wayans
Said
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Father
" I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.' "
Jesse McCartney
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" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "
William Hurt
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" My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him. "
Condoleezza Rice
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You
" My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. "
Dan Savage
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Mob
" I caught the acting bug from my dad. "
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