Famous Quotes: Dad

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
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My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
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I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
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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.'
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My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
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My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
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I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.
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My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
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My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.
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I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.
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I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
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At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.
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I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.
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