dad
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘dad’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.” -Eddie Murray
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“My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather’s cousin was Lefty Frizzell.” -Parker Posey
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“I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.” -Nick Mason
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“My dad’s an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.” -Alison Lohman
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“My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing – just in different weights – light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.” -Domenico Dolce
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“I always told my dad I’d play professional football.” -Anthony Doerr
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“My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.” -Scott McCloud
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“I also turn down what’s probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.” -Bill Pullman
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“My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’” -Candace Cameron Bure
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“I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.” -Doug Davidson
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“You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin’ kidney!” -Sarah Hyland
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“I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s’mores difficult. The story would start with something like… ‘and the old man who lived in these woods…’ I would…
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“Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don’t know who my dad is, they think he’s my coach.” -Lydia Ko
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“My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.” -Dolph Lundgren
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“To me I’m just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I’m in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he’s kind of my…
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“I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.” -Dusty Baker
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“The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.” -Michael Chiklis
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“I’m a dad now and whatever I’m doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it – usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.” -Jeremy Sisto
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“I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.” -Gerry Cooney
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“I know who my dad is, I’ve met him a few times, but I don’t even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don’t even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn’t bother me because I don’t know any different. I just…
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“It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.” -Haley Reinhart
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“My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.” -Randy Travis
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“All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.” -Hunter Hayes
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“I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.” -Laura Benanti
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“Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.” -Brian Sandoval
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“My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band – one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.” -Jonny Lang
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“My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.” -Hale Irwin
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“I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we’d have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.” -Ahmet Zappa
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“I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.” -Scott Bakula
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“Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who’s successful.” -John Leguizamo
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“My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there’s a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.” -Leslie Bibb
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“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.” -Stacie Orrico
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“I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.” -Miranda Kerr
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“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.” -Chris Pine
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“No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.” -Jimmy Connors
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“My mum’s parents were from Ireland, my dad’s mum was American-Irish.” -Dominic West
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“Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.” -Eric Shanteau
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“I actually study boxing – my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.” -Lana Parrilla
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“I’d always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad – he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can’t get my head around the fact that I am older than he was – ever.” -Ian Hislop
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“I’m a four star general in this thing, and you don’t rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.” -Sam Elliott
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“As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.” -David Crystal
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“One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them – and only them…
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“I think people like to think I’m in some way financially dependent on my family – on my dad – but the fact of the matter is I’ve been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That’s something people don’t know or understand.” -Devon Aoki
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“My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.” -Hunter Parrish
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“My mom was a dancer, my dad’s a singer and I’ve always had that kind of music in my life.” -Elvis Stojko
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“Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I’ve just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that’s lovely, love.” -Melissa George
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“My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn’t live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn’t really aware that he was a writer I didn’t start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that…
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“Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.” -Bobby Hull
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“Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I’m going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.” -Ricky Martin
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“My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.” -John L. Phillips
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“I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn’t afford it.” -Chaske Spencer
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“But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.” -Lily Allen
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“My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed – I didn’t hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.” -Heather Morris
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“My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That’s the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.” -Boomer Esiason
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“My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you’re constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.” -Dierks Bentley
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“On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven’t arrived yet and bring me back to reality.” -Candace Parker
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“I love playing a dad. It’s hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.” -Peter Gallagher
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“I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.” -Stuart Appleby
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“My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.” -Isabel Lucas
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“I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.” -Ryan Giggs
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“A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.” -Jason Sudeikis
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“We all have roles in life. I’m a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I’m on the stage.” -Jack Bruce
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“I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we’ve met a few times. I think he’s amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he’s made mistakes. He’s cool.” -Cheryl…
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“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.” -Haley Joel Osment
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“My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.” -James Wood
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“Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.” -Kim Wilde
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“I wasn’t aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children’s entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I’d say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, ‘oh, is he Ralph Harris?’ And I had to say no and then they would…
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“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn’t go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.” -Rich Lowry
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“I’m probably going to get in trouble for this but ‘American Dad’ is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.” -Donald Glover
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“When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.” -Mireille Enos
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“My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.” -Benjamin Walker
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“My life isn’t that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can’t talk on the phone. He’s too crippled and shy, and that’s almost harder. He’s there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it’s just impossible to have a relationship.” -Joey Lauren Adams
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“I don’t know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn’t know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, ‘What do you think is so funny?’” -James Belushi
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“My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.” -Jason Gann
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“I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he’s 90 years old now, so he’s no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.” -Claude Nicollier
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“My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.” -Shane MacGowan
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“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.” -Mia Love
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“My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad’s dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.” -Tony Hale
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“Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she’s in her mid- to late 70s.” -Jamie Moyer
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“My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn’t have anything left to give.” -Scott Stapp
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“I love being a dad. I’d have more kids if I could. I’d take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.” -Richie Sambora
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“I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.” -Max Irons
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“My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.” -Thomas Jane
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“The people on my mum’s side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad’s side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.” -Evangeline Lilly
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“I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.” -Chely Wright
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“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.” -Mel Torme
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“My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.” -Jonathan Krohn
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“I’m a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.” -Steve Zahn
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“I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dad’s thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.” -Jeff…
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“I’m probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.” -Mary Cheney
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“Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.” -Peter Agre
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“To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.” -Robert Moog
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“For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like ‘Blue Kentucky Girl,’ by Emmylou Harris, and ‘Off the Wall,’ by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s ‘Purple…
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“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.” -Marcy Kaptur
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“My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents’ house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I’m on ‘Downton Abbey.’” -Allison Williams
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“My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The…
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“I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn’t have a chance to be with him very often.” -Nancy Sinatra
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“My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.” -Bob Balaban
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“My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.” -Poppy Z. Brite
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“My dad is very successful in his business. He’s always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.” -Luke Bryan
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“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
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“I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn’t believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.” -Ed Miliband
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“There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.” -Arne Duncan
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“My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.” -Dakota Fanning
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“My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn’t enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.” -Brendan Coyle
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“I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad’s Benny Goodman records.” -Alvin Lee
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“I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.” -Samuel West
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“I’ve got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don’t have the time to work on it right now. I’m way too busy with the ‘Kingkiller Chronicles’ and being a new dad.” -Patrick Rothfuss
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“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
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“I’m an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he’s going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we’re going to have a really fun night and it’s going to be really exciting. I’m really…
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“My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven’t been there for him… and that’s sad.” -Daniel Baldwin
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“I want babies. I think I’ll be a great dad.” -Oliver Hudson
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“But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I’d never find a man. What’s very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I’ve ever met. He’s a great man and a…
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“I didn’t want to play a lawyer. I didn’t want to play a doctor. I didn’t want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.” -William Petersen
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“I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.” -Patrick Duffy
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“Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly ‘clean’ politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.”…
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“I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.” -Harry Reid
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“I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not.” -Emily VanCamp
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“I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.” -Glenn Frey
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“I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn’t have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.” -Dido Armstrong
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“My dad’s era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy – the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.” -Dean Norris
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“I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.” -David Hyde Pierce
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“I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud… that was pretty cool.” -Eleanor Mondale
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“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.” -Jake Owen
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“Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.” -Tatum O’Neal
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“I’m left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.” -Dustin Diamond
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“My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.” -Dan Fogelberg
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“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn’t really talk about it. I know that it’s there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.” -Jeremy Northam
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“Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.” -Lara St. John
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“I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job.” -Will Estes
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“On the one hand, I’ve had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.” -Julian Lennon
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“My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything.” -Isabelle Huppert
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“The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.” -Mike Weir
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“Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.” -Retief Goosen
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“I wasn’t sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.” -Shannon Elizabeth
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“I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn’t spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite……
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“It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.” -Karrie Webb
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“I would ask my dad what he did, and he’d say, ‘I listen to people’s problems.’ In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.” -Marcia Cross
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“But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn’t be drafted until we were 20.” -Mel Gibson
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“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
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“When I grew up, people said, ‘You’ll never be the man your dad was.’ And I said, ‘Gee, I hope not.’” -Rip Torn
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“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.” -Kurt Russell
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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…
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“I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.” -David Rudisha
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“I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it’s cool when I fix things around the house.” -Ronnie Dunn
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“My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.” -Joe Lando
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“And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and – my father is a big fight fan – and I said, ‘Dad, I got a couple of days off and I’m getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.” -Wilt Chamberlain
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“When you get pure joy out of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ or ‘seeing,’ that’s when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.” -Brendan Fehr
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“Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.” -Joe Manganiello
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“I’m one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.” -Abbie Cornish
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“Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.” -Edward Kennedy
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“My dad’s a bodybuilder. My whole life I’ve been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.” -Gary Sheffield
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“My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.” -John Astin
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“My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I’ve got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick.” -Mickey Spillane
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“When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.” -Michael Weatherly
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“My dad’s one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman’s an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he’s a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don’t necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.” -Alex Pettyfer
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“It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it’s OK.” -Heather Graham
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“He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.” -Ben E. King
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“Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life… It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.” -George Eads
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“My mother’s incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He’s got logic for every situation. They’ve been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.” -Brian Austin Green
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“And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.” -Paul Reiser
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“My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.” -Moon Unit Zappa
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“My mother is Italian and my dad’s Irish. In my family, we’re expressive. Nobody holds back.” -Kate Walsh
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“My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.” -Tom Glazer
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“Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.” -Max Cannon
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“When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.” -Bruno Tonioli
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“Dad said that he was prouder of me than he’d ever been when I came out.” -Randy Harrison
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“I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I’ve ever tried to…
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“My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.” -Rachel Hunter
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“When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, ‘Are you wearing makeup?’ I would say back, ‘You’re wearing more makeup there than I am!’” -Georgia Jagger
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“I can’t remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.” -David Cone
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“My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.” -Brion James
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“I’m really, really lucky. I was given my dad’s good genes.” -Josh Brolin
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“When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course – I’m a girly-girl – and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.” -Lisa Guerrero
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