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“I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.”

“My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.”

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Author:Joe Montana

“My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.”

Littles Jobs Lines Dad Workers My Dad Division Sparks Motor Assembly Plugs Assembly Line General Motors

Author:Michael Moore

“I don't want to be an old dad.”

Want Dad

Author:Shemar Moore

“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”

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Author:Emily Mortimer

“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.”

Ifs Want Home Dad Spring My Dad Excuse London Chickens Coming Home Stamps Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Emily Mortimer

“Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.”

Way Feels Said Jobs Choices Dad My Dad Obvious Pursue Distraction

Author:Jason Mraz

“I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.”

Listening Mom Dad Cat Jazz My Dad Radio Albums My Mom Collections

Author:Jason Mraz

“My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.”

Dad My Dad Editors

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.”

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Author:Dave Mustaine

“And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.”

Ifs Kind Two Hours Minutes Dad Ten My Dad Brooks

Author:Mike Myers

“Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.”

Comedy Grew Dad Grew Up Ultimate British Peter Favourite Sellers British Comedy

Author:Mike Myers

“Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.”

Laughing Dad My Dad Silly

Author:Mike Myers

“My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.”

Mom Dad Office My Dad My Mom Factories Encyclopedia

Author:Mike Myers

“My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.”

Stuff Dad Army My Dad Liverpool

Author:Mike Myers

“My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.”

Years Dad My Dad Corporations Janitor

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'”

Needs Said Political Father Party Boys Dad Thirds Settling Political Parties

Author:Ralph Nader

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“It's an ongoing joy being a dad.”

Joy Dad Ongoing Being A Dad

Author:Liam Neeson

“It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”

Should Doe Father Dad Good Father

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”

Men Humans Children Father Literature Left Dad Absence Fatherless

Author:Anais Nin

“Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.”

Way Needs Done Dad Safe Smart Gun My Dad Uncles

Author:Ted Nugent

“I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.”

Knows Wells Mother Wife Dad Mets Died My Wife Crush Concerts Mother Died

Author:Gary Numan

“I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.”

Way Ideas Kids Dad Lifetime

Author:Glenn Beck

“I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.”

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Author:Chris O'Donnell

“I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.”

Ifs Father Sports Dad Fallen Jail Great Dad

Author:Apolo Ohno

“My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.”

Mind I Can Can Do Dad My Dad Supporter I Can Do It

Author:Apolo Ohno

“I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.”

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Author:Apolo Ohno

“I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.”

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Author:Apolo Ohno

“'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.”

Bits Dad Mouths My Dad

Author:Gary Oldman

“And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.”

Dad Pressure My Dad Supporter

Author:Bobby Orr

“I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.”

Trying Dad Fit Pressure My Dad Copies Mold

Author:Joel Osteen

“My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.”

People Years Grows Born Church Dad My Dad

Author:Joel Osteen

“I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.”

World Believe Said Used Christ Church Behinds Dad Crosses My Dad Maps Globes Symbolic

Author:Joel Osteen

“It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.”

Country Running Dad Right Now Bunch Our Country Alcoholics

Author:Patton Oswalt

“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.”

Knows World Wells War Mother College Dad Army Raised My Dad War Of The Worlds Grandmother World War Ii Splits Grandfather Salesman College Education

Author:Al Pacino

“I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.”

House Mom Dad My Dad My Mom My Sister

Author:Trey Parker

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