Famous Quotes: Dad

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
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To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
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My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
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If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
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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.
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I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
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Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
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Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.
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I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
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I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.
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My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
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I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
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There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.
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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 real man to me. A sleeping lion.
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When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
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