Dad Quotes - Page 26

• I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

  Jessica Pare

  Kids, Want, Pay

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• I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

  Rumer Willis

  Mother, Hate, Thinking

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• I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

  Martina McBride

  Country, Brother, Band

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Hero, Kids, Rooms

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• My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Mom, Thinking, People

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction.

  Eric McCormack

  Growing Up, Father, Play

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  Iggy Azalea

  Children, Memories, Play

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

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• When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

  Richard Griffiths

  Talking, People, Looks

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’

  Josh McDowell

  Mom, Kids, Needs

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• Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.

  Bristol Palin

  Nice, Teenager, Thinking

  "Bristol Palin Slams Obama's Gay Marriage Stance: It's Based on 'Too Many Episodes of Glee'" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 10, 2012.

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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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• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  Ray Floyd

  Lying, Kids, Golf

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• I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

  Lynne Truss

  Eggs, People, Helping

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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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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• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  Billy Crystal

  Home, Style, Listening

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Media, Singing

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

  Jessica Hahn

  Mother, Toilets, Used

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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 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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• My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Mom, Three, Married

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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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