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“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.”

Ifs Stills Father Powerful Records Havens Information Particular Brother Theory Source Evolution Dad Claims Independent Structure Errors Locals Observation Bankruptcy Unified Inference

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”

Ifs Children Two Home Mother Dad Shoes Dear Palaces Old Shoes

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.”

Looks Remember Used Saws Car Taught Dad Skins Inspired Used To Be Wheels Factories Engineers Acumen Dissection Motorbike

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.”

Stills Play Shows Used Practice Player Taught Dad Band My Dad Spots This Day Rehearsal Bass Michigan Bass Players Playing Bass

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.”

Mean Wanted Jobs Television Reader Dad My Dad Producers Assistants

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.”

Firsts Real Night Three Voice Powerful Dog Dad My Dad Sexy Concerts Fifteen Garbage Fourteen Pumpkin Annie Smashing Manson Three Dog Smashing Pumpkins

Author:Amy Lee

“We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.”

Ifs Way Long Important Lines Land Dad Machines Dinner Forbidden Long Way Answering Machines

Author:Regina Brett

“The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.”

Stills Watches Alive Minutes Dad Gold Died My Dad Boxes Decades Stopping Jewelry Jewelry Boxes

Author:Regina Brett

“My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.”

Giving Done Stories Hurt Dad Capable Daughter My Daughter Abandoned

Author:Regina Brett

“I know my mom still wears lingerie and jumps out of closets to scare my dad. She's always joked that she tries to give him a heart attack so she can get his coin collection. But now she's actually worried that she might give him a heart attack. And the coin collection may not exist, so she's being gentler on him.”

Knows Giving Trying Heart May Stills Might Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Worried Collections Scare Closets Coins Heart Attack Lingerie

Author:Pamela Anderson

“My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.”

People Writing Matter Four Feet Dad No Matter What My Dad Do It Yourself

Author:Tiger Woods

“I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.”

Dies Sleep Dad Passengers

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.”

Knows Kids Remember Father Dad Beats My Dad Alternatives Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Leslie Mann

“My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.”

Thinking Whole Would Be Secret Dad Adults My Dad Whole Life Darkest Secrets

Author:Sarah Silverman

“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.”

Writing Children Stories House Saws Pieces Dad Europe Mum Sydney

Author:Markus Zusak

“I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why not? My dad's view of New York is very similar to Americans' when they talk about Ireland.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Ideas Views New York Dad My Dad Tendencies Why Not Ireland

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.”

Knows Heart Persons Dad My Dad Telling The Truth Honorable Deep Down Good Heart

Author:Brooke Hogan

“Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our mom, our dad, our family, our religion. And some people, eventually, evolve beyond that until they're more human-centric or even spirit-centric where they care about everything.”

People Humans Care Spirit Groups Mom Dad Patterns Evolve Our Family

Author:Tony Robbins

“People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.”

People Want Light Kids Night Dies Next New York Dad Bed My Dad Jars Firefly

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.”

Made Important Kids Laughing Dad Six Impression Sibling Older Sibling

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Would Be Running Mother Lost President Focus Dad Incredibles My Dad Glad Our Family

Author:Alexandra Kerry

“Pro wrestling is what my dad did.”

Dad My Dad Wrestling Pro Wrestling

Author:Vince McMahon

“My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.”

Remember Three Mom Dad My Dad My Mom

Author:Joshua Roman

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.”

Needs Ends Strong Support Love You Mom Dad My Dad Support You Strong Family

Author:Esha Gupta

“My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.”

Knows Father Sports Know How Dad Baseball Died My Dad Nine Intricacy Touchdowns Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.”

Ifs World Feels Years Stills War Young Father Lost Felt Effects Dad Losing My Dad Connected War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Tom Hooper

“Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.”

Littles Mother Teacher Dad My Dad Scripture Speakers Pastor

Author:Gloria Gaither

“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.”

Knows Men Said Lasts Actors Father Wish Fields Dad Mets Workers Divorce Architecture Aids Brad Best Father

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.”

Thinking Knows Men Made Used Stuff Mom Goes On Dad Providers Good Dad Good Mom

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.”

Would Be Values Three Felt Realizing Teach Laughing Comedy Dad Pure My Dad Shock Swear Chasing Swear Word Shock Value

Author:Sarah Silverman

“What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.”

Kids Grows Bits Watches Minutes Changed Dad Fundamentals Complexity I've Learned Bugs Crawling

Author:Bob Weir

“I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.”

“When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.”

Children Helping Asks Chance Creativity Dad Contribution Suggestions Adequate

Author:Warren Farrell

“Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.”

Different Enough Feelings Father Left Generations Son Dad Daughter Leaving Wounds Psychics Had Enough Deprivation Son And Daughter

Author:Warren Farrell

“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.”

Children Home Care Parent Gone Mom Dad Areas Pops Stores Circles Plus Farms Integration Daddy Child Care Full Circle Childcare

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.”

Needs Important Dad Benefits Workplace

Author:Warren Farrell

“All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.”

War Ability Son Dad Survived Disposable

Author:Warren Farrell

“Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.”

Children Father Dad Industrialization

Author:Warren Farrell

“Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.”

Children Dad Program Infant Exclusion

Author:Warren Farrell

“At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.”

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.”

Real Remember Sides Generations Dad Tough Originals My Dad Bunch Grandfather Sober Bizarre Strain Remember When Alcoholism Colony

Author:Sam Shepard

“Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.”

Said Dad Politician Decided Vote Stomach

Book:Earthseed: The Complete Series

Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series

“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

Thinking Kind Said Remember Mother Causes Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Upset Grandma Femme Ladylike

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.”

Happens Young Dad Died My Dad Unhealthy Overweight

Author:Jack LaLanne

“My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.”

Dad Perseverance My Dad

Author:Elaine Paige

“The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.”

Fun Dad Hardest Sucker Aka

Author:James Patterson

“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.”

Three Father Dad Bob Dylan Biological Fathers

Author:Jack White

“One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go”

Knows Want Worry Dad One Day Glasses Piano Your Dad Montauk

Author:Rufus Wainwright

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