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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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“I like to believe that I’ve got a lot of guardian warriors sittin’ on my shoulder including my dad.” -Patrick Swayze
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“I used to say, ‘Man, I think I’d be a really good dad. I’ll be a great provider. I’m funny I’ll go on trips with them – I’ll do all sorts of stuff.’ But the momming? I’m not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.” -Elizabeth…
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“I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“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
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“‘Nil By Mouth’ was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that’s not my dad.” -Gary Oldman
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“I couldn’t walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.” -David Icke
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“Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“I shouldn’t have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, ‘You’re too young to be married’. ‘What? I’m 35’. Said, ‘You’re far too young. You haven’t lived yet’. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.” -Rod Stewart
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“My dad is a Deadhead, my mom’s a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.” -Adam Lambert
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“We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.” -Shaun White
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“From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.” -Kathleen Sebelius
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“My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.” -Rashida Jones
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“I can talk to my dad like he’s my manager, and put ‘Dad’ on the back burner. We’ve been doing it since I was 13.” -Jessica Simpson
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“When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?’” -Natalie Portman
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“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he’s never mentioned it – you just find out. That’s a…
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“I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad’s not overly protective, but he’s a dad no matter what.” -Miley Cyrus
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“I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.” -Norah Jones
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“I’m the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.” -Glenn Beck
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“I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad’s an angel.” -Courtney Love
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“My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.” -Bono
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“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.” -Julia Roberts
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“My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say,…
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“My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’” -Joe Biden
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“I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.” -Helena Bonham Carter
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“I don’t really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.” -Pete Townshend
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“When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We’d play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He’d read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.”…
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“Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.” -Maurice Sendak
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“My dad’s got a brilliant eye for scripts ‘cos he’s a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’ Then, ‘Yeah, Dad.’” -Liam Neeson
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“My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you’re 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.” -Katy Perry
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“I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.” -Nikki Sixx
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“It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.” -Abigail Van Buren
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“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It’s a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? ‘Let’s send the monkey to Mars, Dad!’” -Lewis Black
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“I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’” -Ralph Nader
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“My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.” -Bobby Orr
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“My dad used to say, ‘Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn’t influence your intelligence.’” -Tiger Woods
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“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we’re enjoying it, but I’d stop…
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“For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through…
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“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
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“My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos’ ‘In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.’” -Marco Rubio
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“I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.” -Justin Bieber
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“When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.” -Heidi Klum
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“My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you’re fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn’t like you that much.” -Amanda Seyfried
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“My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.” -Christopher Meloni
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“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.” -David Bowie
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“My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad but New York City?” -Henny Youngman
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“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
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“My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It’s like, ‘Just let them run it, then. Don’t you give them ammunition.’” -Adele
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“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.” -Ace Frehley
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“I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m an activist, I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.” -Paul Ryan
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“As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.” -Phil Crane
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“You see another side of Draco when he’s with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn’t say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He’s sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.” -Tom Felton
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“I feel lazy when I’m not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, ‘I know you’re gonna be OK. I’m not worried about you’.” -Kim Kardashian
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“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” -Ellen…
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“Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.” -Ted Nugent
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“My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.’” -Pink
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“My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn’t have a job that gave them a pension.” -Marilyn Manson
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“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.” -Paul McCartney
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“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
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“I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything…
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“When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He’s the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.” -Paris Hilton
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“When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, ‘Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?’” -Mitt Romney
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“And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father.” -Angelina Jolie
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“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.” -Bill Gates
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“Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.” -Jay Leno
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“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’” -Harmon Killebrew
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“When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.” -Ron White
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“My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.’” -Josh Charles
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“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.” -Stevie Nicks
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“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
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“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.” -Jim Carrey
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“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” -Jim DeMint
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“I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.” -Stephen King
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“My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.” -Phil McGraw
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“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.” -Al Unser
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“I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.” -Joel Osteen
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“My dad always said, ‘Don’t worry what people think, because you can’t change it.’” -Daisy Donovan
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“Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.” -Herbert Kaufman
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“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.” -Robert Bly
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“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother’s affair.” -Margaret Turnbull
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“My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.” -Conrad Hall
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“What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” -Tim Allen
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“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.” -John Wooden
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“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
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“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.” -Angela Carter
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“One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.” -Camryn Manheim
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“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.” -Simon Newcomb
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“I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.” -Charley Pride
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“My father taught me how to substitute realities.” -Mira Sorvino
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“My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.” -Star Jones
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“I’m a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.” -John Lithgow
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“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
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“My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.” -Victor Borge
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“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
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“My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.” -Broderick Crawford
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“The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’” -Dinah Shore
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“My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I’ve always been comforted by the power of prayer.” -Anna Lee
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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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“Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.” -Tom Bosley
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“I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.” -Robert Mapplethorpe
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“Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.” -Sam Ewing
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“Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.” -Prince Charles
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“My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.” -Damon Wayans
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“My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.” -David Rockefeller
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“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.” -Harrison Ford
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“That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all.” -August Strindberg
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“As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.” -Gloria Swanson
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“I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.” -Diane Lane
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“As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.” -Christine Keeler
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“Do you know that other than my father, I’ve never had a man take care of me?” -Dionne Warwick
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“I love my dad, although I’m definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.” -Liv Tyler
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“Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.” -Sean Penn
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“No, I never thought about my father’s money as my money.” -Christie Hefner
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“But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I’m a husband and a father.” -Herbie Hancock
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“I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.” -Annette Funicello
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“My father was never anti-anything in our house.” -Errol Flynn
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“But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.” -Buffalo Bill
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“I’m a father. It isn’t just my life any more. I don’t want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.” -Fred Allen
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“I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.” -Jay London
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“My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.” -Janis Joplin
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“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.” -Miguel Indurain
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“The most important influence in my childhood was my father.” -DeForest Kelley
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“My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“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
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“I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.” -Cindy Crawford
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“If my father had hugged me even once, I’d be an accountant right now.” -Ray Romano
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“My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.” -Chief Joseph
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“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” -Kent Nerburn
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“There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.” -Dean Koontz
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“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.” -Orson Scott Card
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“The child is father of the man.” -William Wordsworth
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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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“An angry father is most cruel towards himself.” -Publilius Syrus
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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.” -Gertrude Stein
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“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.” -E. B. White
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“My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.” -Pete Rose
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“When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.” -Frank Butler
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“Whenever I fail as a father or husband… a toy and a diamond always works.” -Shahrukh Khan
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“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?” -Dick Clark
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“It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool.” -Michael Bergin
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“It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.” -Dawn French
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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.” -Eminem
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“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” -Anais Nin
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“I just wish I could understand my father.” -Michael Jackson
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“I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.” -Halle Berry
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“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.” -Margaret Mead
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.” -Bertrand Russell
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“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.” -Imelda Marcos
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“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.” -John Ciardi
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“Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.” -Amy Heckerling
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“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” -Frank A. Clark
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“All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.” -George Eliot
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“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.” -Horace
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