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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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The child is father of the man.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
Author:
John Wise
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I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
Author:
William Wills
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Author:
Treat Williams
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Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Author:
Kim Weston
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We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
Author:
Anne Weisberg
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The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
Author:
Mike Weir
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My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Author:
George Weinberg
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My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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My father was gone when I was three years old.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
Author:
John Walker
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Author:
Voltaire
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That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My father loved people, children and pets.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
Author:
Alan Vega
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
Author:
Keith Urban
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I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Author:
Harry Truman
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My father and brothers were coal miners.
Author:
Merle Travis
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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
Author:
James Tobin
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
Author:
Toots Thielemans
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From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
Author:
Stuart Symington
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There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
Author:
John Sutter
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I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
Author:
William Sumner
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On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
Author:
Henry Stuart
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
Author:
Jason Statham
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In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Author:
Carl Spitteler
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My father taught me how to substitute realities.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Author:
Georg Solti
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There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Author:
Will Smith
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I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Author:
Ricky Skaggs
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People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
Author:
Martin Short
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When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.
Author:
Dinah Shore
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Author:
Anne Sexton
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My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.
Author:
Richard Scott
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Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
Author:
Bruno Schulz
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Author:
Egon Schiele
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My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
Author:
Frederick Sanger
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
Author:
Walter Salles
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
Author:
Tim Roth
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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.
Author:
Pete Rose
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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
Author:
Ray Romano
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
Author:
Kid Rock
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Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Author:
Kid Rock
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Author:
Edward Robinson
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My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
Author:
Ryan Reynolds
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My father felt that children should make their own way.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
Author:
James Rainwater
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I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Author:
Charley Pride
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I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Author:
Sidney Poitier
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I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
Author:
Emo Philips
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Author:
Madeleine Peyroux
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Author:
Sean Penn
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My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Author:
Charles Peguy
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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
Author:
Andy Partridge
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For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Author:
Robert Parker
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My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
Author:
Donny Osmond
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Author:
Alex O'Loughlin
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Author:
Anais Nin
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Author:
Aaron Neville
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Author:
Kent Nerburn
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And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
Author:
David Neeleman
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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
Author:
Richard Neal
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Author:
Bruce Nauman
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My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
Author:
James Nasmyth
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My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Author:
Steve Nash
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Author:
Ellen Muth
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My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
Author:
Lord Mountbatten
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Author:
Constance Motley
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My father was an all-American football player.
Author:
Edwin Moses
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
Author:
Esai Morales
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Author:
Marianne Moore
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My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."
Author:
Charles Moore
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
Author:
Vaughn Monroe
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The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Author:
Vincente Minnelli
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The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Author:
Spike Milligan
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For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
Author:
Michael Milken
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Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
Author:
Al Michaels
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It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.
Author:
Ismail Merchant
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My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.
Author:
Jayne Meadows
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If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
Author:
Scott McNealy
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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My father was very outwardly religious.
Author:
John McGahern
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
Author:
Bobby McFerrin
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I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
Author:
Josh McDowell
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It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
Author:
George McCutcheon
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Author:
Harpo Marx
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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
Author:
George Martin
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Author:
Gabriel Marquez
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
Author:
John Marquand
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The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.
Author:
Pete Maravich
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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.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
Author:
Charles Manson
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And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
Author:
Heinrich Mann
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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.
Author:
Camryn Manheim
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My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
Author:
Dorothy Malone
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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
Author:
John Malkovich
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My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
Author:
Karl Malden
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President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
Author:
Bill Maher
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I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Author:
Ken MacLeod
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.
Author:
Josh Lucas
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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
Author:
Jay London
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He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
Author:
Alan Lomax
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I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
Author:
Brian Littrell
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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
Author:
John Lithgow
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Author:
Laura Linney
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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Maya Lin
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I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.
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Bob Lilly
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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Marv Levy
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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Sam Levenson
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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Jonathan Lethem
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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
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Hugh Leonard
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He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.
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Julian Lennon
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I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
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Sheryl Lee
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We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
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Laurie Lee
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We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
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Norman Lear
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When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
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Steve Largent
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In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.
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Jessica Lange
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I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.
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Michael Landon
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I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.
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Jim Lampley
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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.
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Hedy Lamarr
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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Hedy Lamarr
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People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.
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Emile Lahoud
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At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
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Osama Laden
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I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
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Alan Ladd
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Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
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Alan Ladd
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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.
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Dean Koontz
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But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
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Robert Klein
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What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
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Dexter King
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Billie King
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Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
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Shahrukh Khan
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I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
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Nusrat Khan
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To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.
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Alexandra Kerry
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
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John Kennedy
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My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
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George Kennedy
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The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
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DeForest Kelley
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My father started me singing in church.
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DeForest Kelley
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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Clarence Kelland
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It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
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Harvey Keitel
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As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
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Christine Keeler
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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Flavius Josephus
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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Chief Joseph
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My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
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Chief Joseph
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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
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June Jordan
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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
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June Jordan
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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
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Janis Joplin
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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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Pope John XXIII
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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Donald Johanson
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I just wish I could understand my father.
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Michael Jackson
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On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
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Helen Jackson
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
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Ernest Istook
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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.
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Miguel Indurain
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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Jacky Ickx
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Aldous Huxley
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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William Hurt
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My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.
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Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
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John Hume
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
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John Hume
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Victor Hugo
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Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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Oliver Hudson
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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Vanessa Hudgens
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We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
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Terrence Howard
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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Anthony Hopkins
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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
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Lou Hoover
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I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
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John Hooker
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Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
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Adolf Hitler
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The singing was something I got from my father.
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Woody Herman
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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George Herbert
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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George Herbert
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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Ernest Hemingway
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lillian Hellman
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He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.
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Anne Heche
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Lafcadio Hearn
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
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John Hawkes
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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Kaspar Hauser
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My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
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Noah Hathaway
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Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
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Corey Hart
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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.
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Herbie Hancock
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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Lasse Hallstrom
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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Lasse Hallstrom
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I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
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Dante Hall
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The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
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David Guterson
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Natalie Gulbis
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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Bill Griffith
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
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Alexander Great
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
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Lee Grant
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My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
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Cary Grant
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I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.
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Thomas Goodwin
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Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
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Trisha Goddard
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There will always be a father.
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Gary Gilmore
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A lot of people don't know that my father is black.
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Ryan Giggs
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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
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Boutros Ghali
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My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
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Gordon Getty
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Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.
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Dick Gephardt
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Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
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Sarah Gellar
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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Haile Gebrselassie
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Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.
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Marion Garretty
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Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.
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Marc Garneau
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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Indira Gandhi
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Cornelia Funke
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I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
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Annette Funicello
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I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.
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Klaus Fuchs
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My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
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Lynette Fromme
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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Sigmund Freud
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My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
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Jeff Foxworthy
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
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Jim Fowler
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My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
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Jim Fowler
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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Jean Fontaine
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I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
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Peter Fonda
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When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
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Peter Fonda
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My father was never anti-anything in our house.
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Errol Flynn
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This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.
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Peter Fitzgerald
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You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
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Albert Finney
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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W. Fields
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My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
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Dorothy Fields
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He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.
Author:
Sarah Ferguson
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