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“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.”

Firsts Play Father Cities Effects New York Late Hip Hop Radio Enormous Hips Hops Stations New York City Exposed Disco Radio Stations Happenstance

Author:Michael Rapaport

“I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.”

Ifs Heart Life Is Father I've Learned Stations Good Heart

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?”

Ifs Men Father Chance Son Brother Bears Superiors Stations Tyrants Descent

Book:The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

Source: The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

“When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Hands Lasts Beautiful Father Saws Week Mines Six Died Train Stations Last Time Firsts And Lasts Entwined Train Stations

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.”

“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”