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“I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my own business. My dad gave us his entrepreneurial mindset, so that was also ingrained, as well as the tennis. So in a lot of ways it's a part of making my parents proud. I think we all want to make our parents proud, you know?”

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Author:Venus Williams

“My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world - which he is - and God found a way of making examples for me. Like, just growing up, bullets would hit my partner but not me and I'd be right there. Or my Dad had a thing where he would make me play for the sorry team during football and make me go up against all my friends. It built a certain kind of character and a humble factor into me because I knew I had to work for it. And then to be able to beat them or be just as successful at so many things.”

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Author:Cyhi the Prynce

“My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom is the type that, at the dinner table, you'd look over at and she'd have a piece of asparagus hanging down her nose. Classic mom bit.”

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Author:Katie Dippold

“Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.”

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Author:Mr. Lif

“It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.”

Mother Dad My Dad

Author:Laura Dern

“Look, if somebody said tomorrow, "We're making a Lethal Weapon formula movie, but it's incredibly well-written and for two women," I'm not going to say, "Oh, forget it, it's formula." I got an idea the other day, that somebody should write a typical formula movie, a Lethal Weapon, and make it with me and my dad. It could be all father-and-daughter capers. But I'd want someone really weird to direct it.”

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Author:Laura Dern

“My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used to collect jazz records. He used to collect hundreds and hundreds of jazz records because he had this passion for it. That's kind of how they had certain hobbies together with my mom.”

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Author:Eldar Djangirov

“My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.”

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Author:Eldar Djangirov

“My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.”

Listening Dad Jazz My Dad Coltrane

Author:Eldar Djangirov

“When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.”

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Author:Chelsea Martin

“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.”

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Author:Mila Kunis

“I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.”

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Author:Olga Kurylenko

“My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.”

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Author:Ashton Kutcher

“When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.”

Firsts Jobs Dad My Dad Stores Dust Restaurants Factories Dishes Roof Groceries Washing Sweeping Grocery Stores Washing Dishes Shingles

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.”

Bigs Young Dad My Dad Farms Agriculture Uncles

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.”

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Author:Adam Lambert

“There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.”

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Author:Hugh Laurie

“I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'”

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Author:Ryan Lochte

“I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.”

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Author:John Lydon

“My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.”

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Author:Shirley Manson

“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”

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Author:Imelda Marcos

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.”

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Author:Ricky Martin

“My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.”

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Author:Susana Martinez

“My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I'll back up anything my dad says.”

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Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.”

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Author:Rachel McAdams

“My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.”

World Wells Dad My Dad Mum Earning

Author:Paul McCartney

“My dad was a Methodist minister.”

Dad My Dad Ministers Methodists

Author:George McGovern

“My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.”

People Ifs Life Used Father Worry Dad My Dad

Author:Phil McGraw

“When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

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