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Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... ANTHONY HOROWITZ
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My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my...
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Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came ... ROBERT MONDAVI
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o...
AARON KLUG
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My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio...
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I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi... FRANK GIFFORD
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My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In... ANDY GARCIA He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... CARRIE FISHER My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea...
ALIKO DANGOTE
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER
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P. L. TRAVERS My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was... VAL KILMER I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was a...
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JAMES C. DOBSON I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still bu... JOHN LASSETER He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life.
DAVE FLEMING I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
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My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. ... PHIL JACKSON Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from t...
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I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel... DELMORE SCHWARTZ
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work i... ARTHUR GOLDEN I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of...
JEFF BRIDGES
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he ... ADAM SANDLER
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa i... GAIL KELLY My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But...
CLAIRE DENIS
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... CHRISTIAN BALE I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
ANTHONY BROWNE
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG
What he truly wanted was to be left to his own devices. Not by his actual father, who could no longe... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was just a little goofball. Everybody loved him. My heart aches for (father) Frank (Tortoriello) ...
KAREN SMITH
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... DON RICKLES
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... TERRY WOGAN I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated... LAILA ALI
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
SADIE JONES
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a... NORMAN MACLEAN I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a b...
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ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b... BILL NYE My father was handicapped. He was in a wheelchair from complications of diabetes.
MICHAEL EMKIN I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may exp... CHUCK SCHUMER No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.
JOHN DOE I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa...
MIGUEL COTTO
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh... 
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action... 
The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It... 
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Be a doer and not a critic. 
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. 
It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. 
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. 
I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check... 
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast a... 
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong allian... 
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeli... 
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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who... 
For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one c... 
We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r... 
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when... 
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre... 
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir... 
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Br... 
I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart&... 
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto... 
Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa... 
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equale... 
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like ... 
Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting ... 
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling 
Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu... 
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. 
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. 
My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in th... 
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. 
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've... 
One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. 
Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. 
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. 
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those... 
In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing s... 
People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christia... 
I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's... 
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an... 
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are... 
I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do a... 
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I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't... 
Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device a... 
It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. 
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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. 
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini... 
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