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" What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! "
Terence
Young Men
Judges
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" I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways. "
Abbi Jacobson
Mom
Well Done
Together
" Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that. "
Bindi Irwin
Life
Moment
Think
" I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. "
Thomas Sangster
Me
Guitar
Trying
" Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. "
Michael Reagan
Shining
Father
City
" 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
" I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things. "
Christine Ebersole
Family
Great
Humor
" My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done. "
Thierry Henry
Always
Know
Never
" I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner. "
Summer Sanders
Pool
Swimming
Think
" I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person. "
Sinead Burke
Person
Height
Children
" I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. "
Mark Viduka
Humble
Know
You
" Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks. "
Dwayne Johnson
Character
Family
Wrestling
" Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. "
Maria Sharapova
Without
Dad
Here
" The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "
E. B. White
Before
Become
Years
" 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
" 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
" A lot of Indian fathers don't know how to show affection. My parents really do love me, even though my dad has never been able to say those words to me. "
Rupi Kaur
Words
Love Me
Love
" I do not give money for just mere hopes. "
Terence
Hopes
Just
Give
" 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
Believe
Believe In Yourself
Yourself
" I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular. "
Charlotte McKinney
High
High School
Prove
" I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible. "
Luke Evans
Door
School
Thinking
" When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit. "
Jennifer Grant
Day
Spirit
Remember
" I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous. "
Maika Monroe
Dangerous
Him
Kite
" I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. "
Robert Mapplethorpe
" I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues. "
J. J. Watt
Help
Husband
House
" My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music. "
Dan Reynolds
He
Always
Down
" I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. "
Hugh Jackman
Gentleman
Emotions
Selfish
" I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. "
Lady Gaga
Had
Girl
Skinny
" My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. "
Post Malone
Like
Listening
Music
" I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s. "
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
American
Heritage
Mom
" My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business. "
Travis Scott
Business
His
Apple