Shaquille O'Neal quote: "As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'"

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe...
ERIC MCCORMACK

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, ...
DIMEBAG DARRELL

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ...
ACTION BRONSON

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it...
CAROL LEIFER

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN

I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' w...
BOB DIAMOND

Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ...
LES DAWSON

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'...
JOE FRAZIER

I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ...
HUGH GRANT

My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ...
XAVIER RUDD

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
ADAM BALDWIN

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen...
ZOSIA MAMET

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be hono...
JOHNNY VEGAS

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good...
ELTON JOHN

I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ...
AARON NEVILLE

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

I was at my father's office, and I'd be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers...
ERIC TRUMP

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? ...
JEFF MACNELLY

When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w...
NORM MACDONALD

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two ...
FINN JONES

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually,...
ANDY WARHOL

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM

Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ...
RICHIE HAVENS

When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office ...
DONALD TRUMP, JR.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boa...
WOODY ALLEN

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or...
CHRISTIAN COOKE

Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber,...
JOHNNY MATHIS

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'Y...
BREA GRANT

Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK

Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee,...
DAVID PETRAEUS

On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Sec...
QUAVO

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, becau...
DAREN KAGASOFF

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political care...
MARK TAKANO

My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the...
LOUIS LETERRIER

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi...
FRANCESCO QUINN

'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, a...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an...
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN

I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a ...
AMISH TRIPATHI

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa...
EDMUND WHITE

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad ...
KIRK DOUGLAS

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hea...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.'...
HARRY STYLES

My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always a...
JANE CHEN

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' ...
CORY MONTEITH

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, '...
BENNY BLANCO

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship...
RAY BRADBURY

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favori...
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could...
JIM CARREY

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for al...
SYD BARRETT

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going o...
ANDY WARHOL

I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I eve...
CARLY CHAIKIN

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace becau...
JUDE LAW

When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, ...
NICK KROLL

I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.
NICHOLAS HASLAM

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord p...
DUNCAN SHEIK

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian hi...
ROSEANNE BARR

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pele.
GEORGE BEST

I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR.

To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ...
TAYLOR NEGRON

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
KATE WINSLET

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckles...
DACRE MONTGOMERY

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give ...
PAUL JOHNSON

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.&...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer...
PAT NIXON

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd kno...
TONY IOMMI

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherm...
TOM FELTON

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and spor...
RAJIV OUSEPH

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man...
ZOSIA MAMET

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they&#...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of t...
EMILIA CLARKE

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says...
EDDIE MARSAN

A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I'd be the most flattered I'd b...
LISA LAMPANELLI

I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for h...
FLEUR EAST

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