Dad Quotes - Page 17

• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Next, Entertainment

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

  Robert Redford

  Horse, Moving, Play Hard

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• I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

  Joe Gibbs

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.

  Regina Agyare

  Girl, Home, Technology

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Mean, Thinking

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• Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.

  Woody Allen

  Mom, Children, Bridges

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

  Paul Walker

  Jobs, Focus, Actors

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Mar 02, 2012

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• No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

  Jimmy Connors

  Mom, Grandparent, Tennis

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• But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Kids, Race, White

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

  Gordie Howe

  Mother, Guitar, Fiddle

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Needs, Gone

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• My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Want, Remember, Said

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• My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Cousin, Uncles, Grandfather

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• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Fun, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

  Joe Frazier

  Boys, Hands, Use

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Jon Lovitz

  People, Laughing, World

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• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  Vince Gill

  Song, Play, House

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, School

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• I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

  Bill Pullman

  Numbers, Incredibles, Made

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• My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

  Matt Damon

  Mom, Two, Parent

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

  Guy Lafleur

  Dream, Team, Montreal

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Caring, Chaos, Mum

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• I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Crazy, Knows

  Q&A, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 05, 2007.

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• My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

  Tim Roth

  Country, Party, Communist

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Fighting, Hockey, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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