“Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.” PeopleWellsShowsWantedKnownDadYeahMy DadRadioLabelsFrankWell KnownReally CoolHometownDjsTechnoCool People Author:Stephen Dewaele
“My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a lot of people leave. It's a lot of long hours, shift work. Even my Dad, who's a dentist worked hard, because that's what people do up there.” PeopleLongHardHoursDadTownsMy DadOilMentalityMillsHometownDentistLong Hours Author:Aaron Lines
“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that” PeopleYearsWellsPlayHouseFiveTaughtBabyGrewDadTenMy DadFive YearsFiddle Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
“Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsBelieveArtAblePoliticalArtistSongKnownDadUniqueIncrediblesMy DadControversialPedantic Author:Sean Lennon
“I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.” PeopleJobsPayDadHusbandMusic IsBillsPrimariesBeing A Dad Author:Aaron Watson
“Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.” PeopleWritingStrongDadRootsGuitarMy DadSingersTexasSongwritersSinger SongwritersPlaying Guitar Author:Miranda Lambert
“I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMadeBigsCareRememberBitsCarGrewDadLittle BitGrew UpMy DadMusclesTexasNutsVintageHow To LoveBig CarsMuscle Car Author:Amber Heard
“My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenDadMy FamilyMy DadCall MeConventionsInitials Author:Elvis Costello
“It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.” PeopleTryingMotivationPresidentPsychologyHappenedGoes OnDadComplexesYour DadComplex Relationships Author:Jeb Bush
“I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.” PeopleKindSimpleSilenceBrotherMomDadMy MomBrothers And SistersMom Dad Author:Sidney Poitier
“There was a lot of drama in school because, well, people have problems at home and they take it out on their friends in school. Trying to impress people, they became bullies. I hated it because I know what it's like to be picked on, and I never liked not fitting in, especially moving around so much as a kid because I was an Army brat. My dad was in the Army.” PeopleKnowsTryingWellsProblemHomeKidsSchoolMovingDadDramaArmyMy DadHatedImpressBullyFittingBratNot FittingArmy Brat Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“My mom is a Twilight fan as well and she's just as excited because she's read all the books so I think she wants to see it come alive just like anybody else. My parents supported me from the get-go, they are very supportive which a lot of people don't get. I told my dad I got the part before I told anyone else and he cried and he's so proud and he's so excited. I mean he's amazing and I'm so glad that he's going to sit beside me and go through all of that with me.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsMeanBookParentAliveFansMomProudDadMy DadExcitedMy MomGladTwilightCriedSupportive Author:Ashley Greene
“It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.” PeopleFeelsSaidActionLanguageDadMy FamilyMy DadTherapy Author:Leigh Newman
“I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.” PeopleWorldFeelsWritingTwoAbleDifficultMomDadMemoirEthicalDilemmaMom And DadCandorEthical Dilemmas Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.” PeopleStoriesToo MuchDadJokesSurpriseWho I AmTheatricalCheesyGoofs Author:William Beckett
“I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.” PeopleKindI CanBookRememberSongReadingFoundDadFitMovedStructureMy DadStoresAll KindsRelateHatedSongwritingSchedules Author:Larkin Grimm
“I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.” PeopleFeltDadMy DadBossLegendsCriedReally CoolPinnacle Author:Nick Jonas
“[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.” PeopleHumansHappensFilmGuyBlackNaturalCommonWrittenLandDadLuckInteractionBad Luck Author:Erykah Badu
“My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'” PeopleThinkingLongSaidCareLaughingSonDadDon't CareI Don't CareMy Son Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop. My mom sang in the choir, my dad played the keyboard, and my uncle played the drums. I was into playing the drums, so I played the drums a lot for my uncle, and it got to the point where I was pretty nice at playing the drums. And he let me play every Sunday so, to me, going to church was fun.” PeopleHardPlayFunParentChurchSimpleNiceMomDadLet MeMy DadMy MomSundayGrandfatherUnclesMy GrandfatherBishopsKeyboardsChoirGoing To Church Author:Fetty Wap
“I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.” PeopleKnowsStillsFactsJobsMovingChallengesCollegeMomDadInvolvedTwentiesExpectedMoving ForwardGraduatesApartmentMom And Dad Author:Anna Quindlen
“Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.” PeopleYearsI CanGoneGroupsDadAdultsCompareMapsSoloTrajectory Author:Johnny Marr
“I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.” PeopleKnowsMeanChildrenMomentsKidsWinningLosesCrazyFootballDadThat MomentMaidsOld Maids Author:Terry Gross
“We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.” PeopleYearsBookFacesRoomsTaughtGrewDadGrew UpAppearanceStunned Author:Terry Gross
“I don't have like whatever, so I'm just like, "Oh man, I'm just going to try to stay out of most people's way and get a taco and enjoy myself as much as I can," because it's such a beautiful town. Beautiful weather. I called my dad that day to tell him what was going on with my passport and he was like, "Yeah it snowed four inches today. It's ten degrees outside." I'm just like, "Cool. I'm glad I'm in Austin, no matter what."” PeopleMenWayTryingI CanMatterTodayBeautifulEnjoyFourDadTenDegreesTownsNo Matter WhatYeahMy DadGladWeatherInchesPassportsAustinTacos Author:Justin Vernon
“Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.” PeopleDoorsDadDrinkingBritishTeaDesksDrinking Tea Author:Rachel Hawkins
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.” PeopleKidsUsedFeltWaterAnimalDogDadCreaturesEatingCatTwentiesMy DadFishesFishingVeganPanicCat And Dog Author:Dan Mathews
“Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.” PeopleWellsPlayHelpingCareKidsGamesDadHumbleExcitedVideoHanging OutImpressPlaying Video GamesIronman Author:Don Cheadle
“Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.” PeopleNeedsShouldMindEnoughMotherDadPressure Author:Mila Kunis
“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.” PeopleAsksAnswersDadMy DadMoodRight Questions Author:Asher Roth
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldWantHumansLooksRealHelpingEyeWaterCommunityHealingTalkingSawsDadMy DadGuidesReal WorldMagicianWizardsViewpointsSuperpowerTroubled Waters Author:Guillermo E. Brown
“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.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.” PeopleKnowsWantKindMeanWantedParentMy OwnMomDadMy MomMom And Dad Author:Jillian Hervey
“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.” PeopleFeelsStuffMomDadCreatingExcitingMy DadMy MomArtisticPerformersExciting Things 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.” PeopleFeelsLittlesStuffGrowingDoorsDadMy DadStartingExcitedKnockingStarting Out Author:Jillian Hervey
“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.” PeopleThinkingBlackWhiteRaceGroupsMomDadFitMy DadMy MomAsianMexicanDanish Author:Jessica Alba
“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.” PeoplePayTrumpDadMetsMy DadGlassesFinishedPainterArchitectMarbleDishwashers Author:Hillary Clinton
“People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?" And I always say, "My Dad."” PeopleKindWould BeDadPhotographerMy DadWorkshopsYour Favorite Author:Sam Abell
“I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.” PeopleWayFoundDadTraditionMy DadCaringEducatedThoughtfulPsychiatry Author:Peter Breggin
“Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingDifferentEndsStoriesStageCarCryExampleKeysDadLosingJokesMy DadTricksUpsetDifferent WaysGirlfriendMy GirlfriendHaircutsCar KeysNew GirlfriendNew Haircut Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.” PeopleThinkingLongIssuesTroubleSpecialDadLong TimeStonesFinancialAdvertisingAdministrationEditorsBobRollingRolling StonesPoopWinding Down Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingFeelsI CanUsedInformationDadToolsMy DadRevolutionarySundaySermonsRecruit Author:Wyclef Jean
“Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.” PeopleYearsHas BeensAblePastHouseWhiteHalfMillionsDadJokesPrivilegeEightTreatedWelcomeCelebrateBarackHolidayWhite HouseGuestsChefCookiesOutstandingPastriesPastry Chef Author:Michelle Obama
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidUseRunningJobsPresidentDecisionMoralMilitaryKingsDadProtectComfortableTestsEthicalProfessorsLutherBusiness Person Author:Barack Obama
“My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanWantedLawWinningSupportGroupsLove YouBrotherMomDadMy DadMy MomMy BrotherMy SisterAuntIn-lawsLotteryReunionYour Best FriendNephewNieceFamily ReunionSupport GroupsBrother In LawNiece And NephewImmediate Family Author:Carrie Underwood
“My dad is probably the most proud person when it comes to me, and we have a great relationship. If people have a compliment about my character, they usually say they can tell I was raised right, and that's the truth.” PeopleIfsPersonsCharacterProudDadRaisedMy DadComplimentGreat RelationshipProud Person Author:Chance the Rapper
“I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would see, over and over again, that there wasn't just one actor for the role. It was really clear that there were a lot of people who could play a character really well, and it would always come down to something kind of weird and non-obvious as to why a person was cast. If you're not right, you're not right, but that's okay.” PeopleIfsWellsKindPersonsPlayCharacterActorsRolesClearDadOkayMy DadCastsObviousJust OneAuditions Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the picture, or even stories about family members not seeing eye to eye with what you're doing.” PeopleRealStoriesHomeEyeIssuesSeeingSonListeningDadMembersMy SonComing BackFamily MembersAbout Family Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.” PeopleKnowsWorldHelpingDesireSpiritualityDifferencesKnow HowTeachingDadMy DadBeing TrueBurningFakeMaking A DifferenceNutritionModellingBurning DesireTrue To MyselfHealth And NutritionFake World Author:Miranda Kerr