Dad Quotes - Page 28

• My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

  Leslie Bibb

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

  Mario Balotelli

  Boys, Would Be, Ready

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• But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

  Wes Bentley

  Kids, Python, Dinner

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• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, School, Kids

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• I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.

  Eric Church

  Country, Stars, College

  "Eric Church sings 'naked'". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, ew.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Mother, Media, Mail

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• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Children, Kids

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• My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

  Sean Covey

  Struggle, School, Differences

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Son, People, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  Criss Angel

  Morning, Kids, Wife

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• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  Dan Auerbach

  Kids, Voice, People

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• I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

  Devon Aoki

  Father, Thinking, Years

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Wall, Berlin, Telling Stories

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

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• My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

  Lacey Chabert

  Really Short, My Family, Used

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

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• I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

  Peter Criss

  People, Brooklyn, Four

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• Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

  Roman Coppola

  Beautiful, Home, Towns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

  Arthur Darvill

  Guitar, Young, My Dad

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

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• I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

  Kat Dennings

  Holiday, Thinking, My Dad

  "Is this it?". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.

  Tom DeLonge

  Leukemia, Form, Grades

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• I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

  Anthony Doerr

  Football, Play, My Dad

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Book, Men, Play

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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.

  Hope Davis

  Mother, Iron, Shirts

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

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• I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

  Josh Duhamel

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Kids, Thinking, Oklahoma

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• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  Roger Federer

  Girl, Baby, Two

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