My Dad Quotes - Page 20

• I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Country, Dad

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• My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it's possible. I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it.

  Daniel Pearce

  Jobs, Dad, Years

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• My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

  Bubba Watson

  Fun, Dad, Leader

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  Parker Posey

  Cousin, Dad, Grandfather

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2008.

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• My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

  James Dobson

  Dad, Father, Men

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Brother, Dad

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Dad

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• I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Dad, School

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• I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

  Will Estes

  Jobs, Dad, Entrepreneur

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• A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

  Steve Martin

  Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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• Realizing that other people have a problem with [homosexuality] was the weirdest thing for me. As a kid it wasn't even something that was mentioned. It was never something that was even explained to me. It was just, "That's Mark and he's gay." Mark was just another friend of my dad's who would talk about his boyfriend instead of his girlfriend. I was 5. I didn't care. It seemed perfectly normal, and still does.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girlfriend, Dad, Kids

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• You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything

  Dan Bern

  Dad, Happened, Knows

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• My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

  Jason Aldean

  Dad, Play, Wanted

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dad, Reading

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• My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, Dad, Thinking

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Dad, Book, Home

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

  Missy Higgins

  Dad, Responsibility, Thinking

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• My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Dad, Different, Answers

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

  Rankin

  Dad, Thinking, Impact

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.

  Bob Schneider

  Dad, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

  Heather McDonald

  Dad, Children, Judgement

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