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“My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.”

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“Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.”

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Author:Marisa Miller

“My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”

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Author:Spike Milligan

“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.”

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Author:Michael 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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

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

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Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“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.”

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Author:Mike Myers

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

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Author:Mike Myers

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

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Author:Mike Myers

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

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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.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

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

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“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 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

“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.”

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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

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“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.”

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Author:Al Pacino

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

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Author:Trey Parker

“My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.”

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Author:Trey Parker

“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education

“I think my dad has helped me tremendously.”

Thinking Dad My Dad

Author:Rand Paul

“My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.”

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Author:Jane Pauley

“My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'”

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Author:Pink

“There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'”

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Author:Adele

“My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.”

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Author:Sidney Poitier

“My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I have loved music so much from when I was little and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea, I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.”

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Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

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