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“I spoke to my dad, and he said it took close to 90 dollars to raise me. But that was me and my sister, and my sister moved out when she was 16, so sometimes it can knock you up to triple digits to raise a kid.”

Said Sometimes Humor Kids Funny Dad Raises Moved Dollars My Dad Spokes My Sister

Author:Adam Carolla

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“She got really mad a month ago, because she had e-mailed me a naked picture of herself - which is a nice thing to do - but then I messed up, and I accidentally forwarded that e-mail to both of my parents. Now, my girlfriend is furious, mortified, but I don't even care, 'cause now I have to call up my mother and say 'Mom, I am so sorry - that picture was just for dad.'”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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."”

Should Said Humor Funny Parent Realizing Technology Dad Mets Computer My Dad Programmers Computer Programmers

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!”

Ifs Wells Humor Kids Funny Levels Minutes Dad Easier Fifty Your Dad

Author:Russell Howard

“I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.”

Wanted Community Saws Dad Raised My Dad Farms Cowboy

Author:Tom Johnson

“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.”

Thinking Years Jobs Worst Building Dad Lucky Office My Dad Employment Janitor Office Buildings

Author:Chris Carmack

“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.”

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Author:Victoria Pendleton

“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.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“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.”

Thinking Said Lines Responsibility Dad Fame My Dad Stuck Great Responsibility

Author:Missy Higgins

“My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.”

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Author:James Arthur

“When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.”

Knows Said Stuff Dad Pops Dinner

Author:Yogi Berra

“I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.”

Ifs Way Hard Play Games Fun Too Much Dad Baseball Balls My Dad Right Way Baseball Love

Author:Yogi Berra

“My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.”

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Author:Jon Connor

“If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."”

Ifs Looks Funny Guy Comedy Dad Tough Yeah Hotel Pool Murderer

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.”

Knows Funny Guy Comedy Dad Died My Dad Grandfather My Grandfather Father Died Great Grandfather Dad Died My Dad Died Grandfather Died

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.”

Mind Eye Jobs Business Successful Rich Design Type Dad Entrepreneur Successful Entrepreneurs Rich Dad

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.”

Knows Important Dad My Dad Our Family Genocide Family History

Author:Kim Kardashian

“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.”

Different Matter Might Wanted Used Answers Dad No Matter What Yeah My Dad Call Me

Author:Arlene Dickinson

“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.”

Thinking World Found Dad Impact My Dad Cinema Massive Take Me Imagery

Author:Rankin

“My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.”

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Author:Rankin

“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.”

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Author:Thomas Jones

“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.”

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Author:Bob Schneider

“My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.”

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Author:Christopher Bailey

“When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.”

Way Parent Mom Dad Mets My Dad Conservative My Mom Quaint Aristocratic

Author:SZA

“I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“I think it's becoming rarer and rarer when I consider the experiences that I've had in my life between my dad and my brother and all the men in my life who have all been gentlemen and have looked after women.”

Thinking Men He Man Brother Becoming Dad My Dad Gentleman My Brother

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.”

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Author:Trevor McNevan

“I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.”

Thinking Should Hard Father Rocks Hard Work Dad Fairs Should Have Holiday Mum Days Off

Author:Peter Andre

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.”

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Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.”

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Author:Ramin Bahrani

“A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.”

Feels Guy Dad Sentiments Disgusting Your Dad

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.”

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Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.”

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Author:Molly Ringwald

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.”

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Author:Pam Brown

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.”

Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.”

Men Children Father Parent Dad Shadow Parenting Boards Pleasant Oaks

Author:Voltaire

“Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.”

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Author:Pam Brown

“The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'”

Children Home Cutting Broken Dad Horse Faults Fingers Incredibles Ran Weeping Jezebel

Author:Pam Brown

“When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.”

Young Dad Shots Madness My Dad Entertainment Marble Nintendo

Author:Kevin James

“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.”

Ifs Years Said Hands Father Goes On Dad

Author:Chris Robinson

“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.”

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Author:Chick Corea

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

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Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.”

Trying Mind Said Enough Facts Reading Fiction Trouble Danger Becoming Dad Broads Had Enough Sorting Reading Fiction

Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.”

Records Listening Dad Inspired My Dad Clarinet Goodman

Author:Alvin Lee

“Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.”

Different Done Life Is Artist Dad Afternoon Just Being Being An Artist

Author:Chris Robinson

“My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.”

World Dad My Dad Superiors Cotton Buyers

Author:Joseph Mitchell

“My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.”

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Author:Hugh Grant

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