My Dad Quotes - Page 8

• ...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.

  Peter Facinelli

  Dad, Love You, Feel Better

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• I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  "Samuel L. Jackson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Baby, Travel, Dad

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

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• My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dad, College, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  Jessica Pare

  Summer, Dad, Sibling

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• My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

  Lana Del Rey

  Brother, Dad, Nice

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• Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."

  John Green

  Children, Dad, Father

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• 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 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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• 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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• Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Dad, Hero

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• My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

  Petra Stunt

  Mom, Dad, Humble

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• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Growing Up, Dad

  "Musician Chris Isaak". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

  David Cassidy

  Dad, Father, Son

  "David Cassidy: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

  David Cassidy

  Mom, Dad, Left

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

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• I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

  Mary Cheney

  Mom, Dad, Littles

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• It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

  Paul Giamatti

  Dad, Actors, Making Money

  "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

  Retief Goosen

  Brother, Dad, Golf

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• My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

  Tom Glazer

  Dad, Epidemics, Years

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• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Dad, People, Laughing

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Real, People

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

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