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“I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.”

“Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we were in college: Who are we? Where do we come from? And why are we standing around outside on the night before finals, do we want to end up making elevator parts for a living like our father or what?”

Want Looks Heart Ends Bigs Science Night Asks Father Sky College Pure Standing Finals Midnight Our Father Night Sky Elevators Astronomers Big Questions

Book:The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

“I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.”

Men World Want Stills Father Taken Alive Fans Amount Speech Daughter Breaths Keep Going Beaten Stunned

Author:Emma Watson

“Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.”

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Jobs Mother Actors Father Rejection Instruction Auditions

Author:Michele Lee

“My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.”

Ifs Knows Want Kids Father Picks Things To Do Right Thing Want Me Laborers

Author:Joe Pesci

“This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.”

Ifs Men Want Giving Should May Political Purpose Father Enemy Example Son Treated Protected Statesmanship Opportunism Upright Man

Author:Chanakya

“On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.”

Want Firsts School Girl Father Amount My Friends Enormous First Day Of School Popular Girl

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.”

Thinking Want Should Children Use Father Names Wish Stars Grows Bits Steps Growing Up Fields Shadow My Children Movie Star Downers

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.”

Men Want Ends States Kids Turns Father Share Easier Husband Responsible Load Being Responsible Raising Kids

Author:Tim Huelskamp

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.”

People Want Trying Stories Father Games Football Grew Grew Up Idols Telling Stories

Author:Cam Newton

“My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.”

World Want America Father Mistake Confusion Want Me Same Mistakes

Book:What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace

Source: What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace

“I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.”

Want Father Tears Son Legacy Boyfriend Fathers Day Father Son

Author:Dante Hall

“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.”

Want Mean Home Father Grows Boys Roles Growing Up Figures Models Males Hardest Role Models Absent Male Role Models

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.”

Men World Want Soul Past Dies Father Masters Music Is Rivers Spread Streams Nurture Rough Times

Author:Ali Akbar Khan

“I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.”

Want Feelings Father Steps Too Much Reverence 80s Cathedrals

Author:Patti Davis

“To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Failing Please Succeed Makers Apologizing

Book:Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

Source: Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

“I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.”

Want Matter Jobs Actors Father Concerned Do The Best Good Actors Good Father Being A Good Father

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Persons I Can Different Reason Care Father Pay Risk Changed Son Available Take Care Priorities Reason Why My Son

Author:Curtis Jackson

“You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.”

Knows Want Mother Desire Father Comfort Sickness

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”

“We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.”

Men Want Trying Long Mother Father Teach Dad Protect Clothes Balls Shoes Woods Hanging Out Masculine Our Father Begging Doing Me

Author:Frank Pittman

“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Mother Certain Father Parent Difficult Accepting Honest Aspect Our Children Individuality Painful Love Our Children

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.”

Want Country Night Song Father Differences Drunk Get Up

Author:George Jones

“We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.”

Want Government Father Politics Money Worry Democracy Policy Fit Taxes Constitution Size Ideology Free Speech Bathtubs

Author:Grover Norquist

“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 don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.”

People Thinking Knows Want Play Mother Father Expectations Lawyer Coaches

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D.C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. ... He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.”

Men Want Wells Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Fighting Father Born Security Authority Lawyer Afghanistan Troops Airline Taliban Security Guards Old Job Airline Security

Author:Jay Leno

“Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'”

Want Feels Father Voice Like You Heavy Lifting Inner Voice Priesthood Small Gods Heavy Lifting

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.”

Want Heart Use Father Jesus Grew My Heart Grew Up Concepts Angry Likes Healed Narcissistic Save Me Schizophrenic Untrustworthy Unreachable Crashing Down

Author:William P. Young

“I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.”

Want Kids Father White Growing Up Growing Very Good Plato God Image Kids Growing Up Good Father Plato S

Author:William P. Young

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

Want May Children Littles Problem Home Mother Father Husband Empty Contrary Compare Clock Relief Distress Nests Departure Empty Nest

Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

“My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.”

Want Shows Care Father My Family Take Care

Author:Steve Harvey

“This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.”

Want Trying Firsts Has Beens Feelings Father Heaven Please Obedience God Love Accountability Commandments Our Father Father In Heaven

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Struggle Childhood Style Identity Battle Our Children Victim Forgiving Loyalty Range Fierce Our Father Learn To Forgive Parenting Styles

Author:Augustus Napier

“For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.”

Want Would Be Father Realizing Perfect Dad Appreciate Filled Cards Lame Greetings Greeting Card Perfect Father

Author:Dave Barry

“Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.”

Want Love Firsts Made I Can Together Film Used Mother Courses Father Love You Brother Letters Presses Divorce My Brother Italian Pregnant Mama Predator

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'”

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

Ifs Want Said Actors Father Parent Cases Study Nice Childhood Fine Really Nice Welding

Author:Robin Williams

“I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.”

Thinking Knows Want Feelings Kids Turns Father Keys Dad Optimism Like Me Good Dad

Author:Ben Affleck

“For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.”

People Way Want Helping Father Social Audience Happened Type Conversation Theater Relate Relevance

Author:Ric Roman Waugh

“I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."”

People Thinking Men Want Soul Earth Joy Father Opportunity Millions Husband Remembered Fulfillment Serving God Outstanding Great Friend Good Souls

Author:Tony Robbins

“I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.”

Ifs Thinking Want Play Hands Would Be Kids Song Father Black Quality Watches Position Son Judging Mouths Yeah Hey Worried My Son Awkward Cheesy High Quality Hey You Judge Me Controllers

Author:Jack Black

“My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."”

Ifs Want Said Running Girl Father Doors Fronts Cheating Coming Out Front Doors

Author:Tracy Morgan

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