My Dad Quotes - Page 39

• My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

  Mila Kunis

  Jobs, Dad, House

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

  Bill Hader

  Dad, Thinking, Chicago

  Source: avclub.com

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• My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Thinking, Littles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Winning, Tails

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

  Scott McClanahan

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions.

  Asher Roth

  Dad, People, Answers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.

  Finn Andrews

  Dad, Band, Clubs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

  Adam Richman

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Dad, Sunday

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Humans have real superpowers and when I see my dad, and saw my dad, work with communities and help people change viewpoints, and lead people in healing and guide them through troubled waters in their lives, that represents to me a real world wizard - if you want to look at it with prismatic eyes. That's what they're talking about you read about a magician.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Dad, Real, Healing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dad, Son, Grandfather

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I knew that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. But I loved sin. The Bible says that sin is pleasurable for a season and I loved it.

  Dominic Balli

  Jesus, Dad, Heaven

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

  Janine and The Mixtape

  Dad, Angel, Years

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• My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.

  Meera Menon

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

  Lucas Till

  Dad, Kids, Way

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Dad, Creating

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• As we're growing and stuff, it's been amazing to feel so embraced and have them be so excited. I definitely leaned into my dad a little more starting out because once we actually started to get those people knocking on our doors and emailing.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dad, Doors, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Fishing, Different

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees. I went on to win the tournament and later, instead of my dad congratulating me, he told me that if I ever threw a club again, I'd never play in another golf tournament. I haven't thrown a club since.

  Arnold Palmer

  Dad, Golf, Winning

  "Interview: Arnold Palmer talks Bay Hill, Rory McIlroy and the Masters". Interview with Ryan Ballengee, sports.yahoo.com. March 28, 2015.

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• I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dad, Glasses, People

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Mom, Dad, Up North

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you're 6-years-old, you can't comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what's wrong with me?

  Paula White

  Dad, Thinking, Years

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Dad, Good Life

  Source: time.com

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• I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.

  Michael Buble

  Mom, Uncles, Dad

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Dad, Whales

  Source: therumpus.net

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