Dad Quotes - Page 27

• 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 was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Boys, Body

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

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  Hale Irwin

  Mom, Athlete, Athletic

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". Interview, www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

  Alice Eve

  Oxford, Careers, Doubt

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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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• 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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• I'm a dad and that's pretty important.

  Todd Akin

  Important

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• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  Patrick Duffy

  Careers, Young, Stability

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• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  Jennifer Grant

  Happiness, Father, Coffee

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

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• My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

  Alastair Campbell

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Alastair Campbell: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

  Alexa Chung

  Cutting, Hair, Years

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

  Morena Baccarin

  Mom, Home, Men

  "Homeland's Morena Baccarin Takes a Political Stand". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Cancer, Two

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• My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

  Erin Andrews

  Long, Body, Legs

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• I've always wanted to be a dad.

  Kris Allen

  Wanted

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• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  School, Mean, America

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• To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

  Rebecca Black

  Girl, Forever, Groups

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

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• My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

  Troian Bellisario

  Mom, Successful, Television

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Grandmother, Russia

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Teacher, Reading, School

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• I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

  James Belushi

  Mom, Brother, Couple

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• I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

  Jason Bateman

  Writing, Character, Stories

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• I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

  Justin Bieber

  Want, Married, Young

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

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