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“My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.”

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Author:Robbie Lawler

“I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.”

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Author:Robbie Lawler

“My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.”

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Author:Daphne Oz

“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.”

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Author:DJ Ashba

“I remember the day before my dad died, I was in a hospital room with him, and he had lived a long life. He was 94, and I helped him get up, and there were two windows separated by the partition. I took him to the first window, and he kind of found his way to the second window, and on the way there was a mirror, and he looked into it, and I saw through the corner of my eye, I remember the look on his face. What came over his face was "So I'm here. I've crossed that bridge."”

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Author:Andy Kim

“To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that has that much mass appeal what it is? What is it that makes kids in China want to see that movie [ 'Avatar'] and makes my dad want to see that movie.”

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Author:Casey Neistat

“The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my dad, who's not here, but he's here.That's why there's the Day of the Dead. There's such a connection with the dead.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.”

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Author:Karch Kiraly

“My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.”

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Author:Karch Kiraly

“I thank my dad for my mental longevity and for the fact we played against better competition.”

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Author:Karch Kiraly

“I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.”

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Author:James Ellroy

“I remember back when I was 10 and my dad was telling me: Hey, I'm going on a trip this week to play out in Lake Tahoe. I didn't really know where Lake Tahoe was going back, living back in North Carolina.”

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Author:Stephen Curry

“I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.”

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Author:Julie Bowen

“My dad always told me that I could be anything I wanted, if I was willing to work hard enough to achieve it.”

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Author:Coco Jones

“Embraced by the Light. It's about a woman who passed away during surgery, and she went to heaven, had her experience, and then came back. My dad [Robert Kardashian] would try to get me to read it, and I wouldn't. Then when he passed away, I was cleaning out my room in his house, and I found it. I read it, and it helped me. I felt like my dad was okay.”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.”

Heart Dad Protect My Dad

Author:Sofia Coppola

“I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.”

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Author:Sofia Coppola

“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.”

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Author:Mila Kunis

“My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“My dad will get a kick out of [Scary Movie 4]. I don't know if he'll love it but by now my family know what to expect from me. So it's no surprise.”

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Author:Carmen Electra

“My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.”

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Author:Dakota Fanning

“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.”

Thinking Dad My Dad Chicago

Author:Bill Hader

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

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Author:Pete Carroll

“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.”

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Author:Pete Carroll

“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."”

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Author:Scott McClanahan

“I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.”

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Author:Martina McBride

“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.”

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Author:Asher Roth

“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.”

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Author:Finn Andrews

“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.”

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Author:Adam Richman

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

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Author:Milla Jovovich

“I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.”

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Author:Sofia Coppola

“It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.”

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Author:Ray Liotta

“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.”

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Author:Guillermo E. Brown

“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.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“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.”

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Author:Dominic Balli

“My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.”

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Author:Joan Baez

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

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Author:Janine and The Mixtape

“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”

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Author:Thomston

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Lucas Till

“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.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“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.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.”

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Author:Jessica Alba

“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.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

“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.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!”

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Author:Jenny Mollen

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

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