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“I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.”

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“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.”

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Author:Xavier Rudd

“My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.”

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Author:Nick Park

“My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.”

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Author:Liv Tyler

“My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.”

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Author:James Nesbitt

“My dad was my hero, my best friend.”

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Author:Dhani Harrison

“Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.”

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Author:Tom Lehman

“When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.”

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Author:Steve Albini

“My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.”

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Author:Bubba Watson

“My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.”

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Author:Phil Niekro

“Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.”

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Author:Kimberly Willis Holt

“My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.”

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Author:Anthony Browne

“For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.”

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Author:Yoseob

“I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.”

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Author:Robert Carlyle

“You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything”

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Author:Dan Bern

“My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.”

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Author:Chili Davis

“None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.”

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Author:Sanjay Dutt

“My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!”

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Author:Susan Davis

“My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.”

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Author:Adam Ferrara

“My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.”

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Author:Joey Badass

“Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.”

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Author:Joey Badass

“My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.”

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Author:Kenna

“My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.”

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Author:Kenna

“My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.”

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Author:Richard Hilfiger

“My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.”

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Author:Mose Allison

“I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.”

“I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!”

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Author:Summer Sanders

“My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.”

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Author:Natalie Massenet

“I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.”

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Author:Nina Conti

“I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.”

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Author:Antoine Predock

“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.”

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Author:Michael Stipe

“I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.”

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Author:Woody Harrelson

“My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost.”

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Author:Pattie Mallette

“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.”

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Author:Shep Gordon

“My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.”

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Author:Jackie Earle Haley

“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.”

“I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.”

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Author:J. C. Chandor

“My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn't famous enough. My best friend was Ben Brooke-Taylor. His dad Tim was in The Goodies - that was famous.”

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Author:Giles Coren

“When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.”

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Author:Tanya Tucker

“[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.”

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Author:Charli XCX

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