Dad Quotes - Page 33

• I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

  Jamie Redknapp

  My Dad

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• People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Men, People

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• I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

  Keri Russell

  Mom, Kgb, Secret

  "Keri Russell Talks the Americans, Her Character’s Backstory, Working in the 80s Time Period, Fight Scenes, Austenland, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  Faith Prince

  Personality, Age, Battle

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Faith Prince & DROP DEAD DIVA - Plus Laurents, Robbins, MAME, GYPSY & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 14, 2011.

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Army, Funeral, My Family

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• My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

  Booboo Stewart

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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

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• I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

  Booboo Stewart

  Mom, People, My Dad

  "Q&A: Teen player Booboo Stewart is latest 'Twilight' breakout". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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• How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Mean, Animal

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Long, Focus

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• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  Zac Hanson

  Real, Kids, Years

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• As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

  David Lauren

  Fun, Kids, Unique

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• Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

  Katie Leung

  Brother, Men, Swans

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• My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

  William Levy

  Mother, Kids, Boys

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• I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

  Chaske Spencer

  Football, Player, Shoes

  "'New moon' Werewolf Chaske Spencer is looking good - with or without his shirt off" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. August 19, 2009.

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• My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

  Julie Salamon

  Country, War, Doctors

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• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Real, People, Giving

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• One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

  Lukas Haas

  School, Order, Giving

  "Actor Lukas Haas dons a hospital gown for MCR clip, works on debut LP" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 19, 2006.

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• My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Men, Stuff, My Dad

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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• My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Figures, Let Me, Wanted

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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• When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!

  Georgia May Jagger

  Makeup, Firsts, Asks

  "Georgia May Jagger" by Derek Blasberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

  Miranda Leek

  Archery, Piano, Trying

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• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  Page McConnell

  Mom, Guitar, Play

  "Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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• I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

  Claude Nicollier

  Years, Switzerland, Helping

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• When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.

  Olivier Martinez

  Kids, Cowboy, Class

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

  Robert Griffin III

  Mom, Years, Giving

  "Mitt Romney on Hillary Clinton's candidacy, crowded GOP field; Sen. Bob Menendez on indictment, Iran and Cuba". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2015.

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