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" You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength. "
Donald Cerrone
Old
Man
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" 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 want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me. "
Ricky Ponting
Good
Family
Life
" Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I. "
Nikki Haley
Me
Life
Sister
" 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 dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. "
Thomas Jane
Businessman
Ability
Some
" My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine. "
Danny Meyer
Good Food
Me
Wine
" I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun. "
Joey Fatone
Food
Wife
Time
" My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' "
Tiger Woods
Influence
Dress
Intelligence
" 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
" I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic. "
Johnny Vegas
Life
My Life
Know
" My dad was always supportive of me and my skating, and he loved me as best that he could, and he worked hard. "
Tonya Harding
Me
Always
Best
" When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that. "
Zach LaVine
Community
Little Things
Money
" I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' "
Nicole Kidman
Feeling
Wake Up
Positive
" My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. "
Matt Lauer
Jewish
Mom
Anything
" 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
" Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. "
Wade Boggs
Game
Father
Play
" Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there. "
Leo Varadkar
Family
Daughter
College
" As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. "
Christine Keeler
White
Real
Me
" My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience? "
Matt Lauer
Think
Experience
Fishing
" The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time. "
Donald Cerrone
Win Or Lose
Fight
Lose
" I live a wild and crazy life. "
Donald Cerrone
Live
Crazy Life
Crazy
" Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. "
Anthony Quinn
Children
Father
Good
" My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was. "
Connie Britton
Mountains
Top
Rock
" 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
" My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. "
Mike Rowe
Broken
Mother
Time
" I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Mom
Just
Irish
" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "
John Malkovich
Comfortable
Measure
Me
" Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference. "
Ezra Taft Benson
School
Children
Difference
" I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. "
Jon Hamm
Color
Jewelry
Life
" We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything. "
Ashley Scott
Nothing
Remember
Over