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" When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up. "
Kendall Jenner
Up
Young
Party
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" I love being a dad. I just love it. "
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" At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough. "
John Denver
Husband
Me
Father
" My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. "
Victor Borge
Caught
Cure
Disease
" So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. "
Nick Cannon
Young
Age
Father
" 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
Bed
Kid
Problem
" It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. "
Vanessa Kerry
Mean
Time
Story
" One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't. "
Justin Trudeau
Family
People
Citizen
" The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem. "
Rhianna Pratchett
Distance
Judges
Know
" My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night. "
Brion James
Night
Theater
Movie Theater
" Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines. "
Paloma Faith
Better
Born
Cook
" 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
" 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
Service
High School
War
" Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past. "
Joel Grey
Looking
Looking Back
Past
" I'm a lot like my dad: a little bit of a daredevil. I like an adrenaline rush. "
Lynsi Torres
Little
Adrenaline
Bit
" I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way. "
Molly Quinn
Way
Dad
Daddy
" I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps. "
Paris Jackson
Think
Know
Heal
" One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time. "
Shawn Michaels
Bond
Time
Rest
" All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. "
George Eliot
Bit
Father
Alphabet
" 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 think social media has taken over for our generation. It's a big part of our lives, and it's kind of sad. "
Kendall Jenner
Kind
Think
Social Media
" Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments. "
Amy Hoggart
Good Health
Experience
Health
" When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. "
David Alan Grier
Kid
Me
Walk
" I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner. "
Bobby Bowden
Alcohol
Me
Mom
" It's an ongoing joy being a dad. "
Liam Neeson
Joy
Father's Day
Dad
" Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later. "
Steven Ford
Football
Integrity
Mother
" I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child. "
Saoirse Ronan
Me
Parents
Good
" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
Bill Gates
Me
Family
Always
" Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. "
Tiger Woods
Day
Child
Fun
" You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing. "
Charlie Worsham
Guitar
Mom
Know
" My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent. "
Rob Liefeld
Independent
You
Person