“The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.” FirstsPlayFatherCitiesEffectsNew YorkLateHip HopRadioEnormousHipsHopsStationsNew York CityExposedDiscoRadio StationsHappenstance Author:Michael Rapaport
“I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.” IfsWorldFeelsYearsStillsWarYoungFatherLostFeltEffectsDadLosingMy DadConnectedWar Of The WorldsSecond World War Author:Tom Hooper
“It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.” MenFeelsChildrenImportantHelpingFatherRiskEffectsMomOur ChildrenContributionRoughHousingUnwantedBad ParentingPushed Away Author:Warren Farrell
“When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.” I CanFatherCausesEffectsHusbandIncreaseBe GoodNeighborHopefullyBeing The BestChipsBeneficialCause And EffectGood Husband Author:Ted Nugent
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.” IfsMenKindImportantIdeasWholeCultureFatherStuffAirEffectsSellsSellingUnclesSalesmanBoyhood Author:Arthur Miller