Famous Quotes: Dad

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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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.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
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The integrity of the game is everything.
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Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
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If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.
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My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
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Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.
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