I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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Related My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guy... CHAZZ PALMINTERI What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown... RAHUL GANDHI I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ... VINCE CABLE My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a... MAYA ANGELOU My father (Riles Johnson) was active in politics, and brought me into it when I was 8 years old, JACK JOHNSON I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that... BILL FORSYTH I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith. KEN HAM When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible sum... IAN BEATTIE What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. DAN DECARLO 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 I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able ... KURT ANGLE I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends. DAVID RUDISHA I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ... IRA LEVIN When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ... ERIN O'CONNOR When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ... ERIN O'CONNOR I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the de... RYAN GOSLING I get on so well with lots of Scots, and a man who had a big influence on my career and was a great ... JIMMY HILL My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who... ARTHUR SHAPIRO After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe... LISA MARIE PRESLEY Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with. CASSANDRA CLARE I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my ... JULIA SAWALHA I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ... JON MEACHAM When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ... DELBERT TEILLE My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel... GALE HAROLD I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a ... J.R. WARD My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall... PETER C. DOHERTY I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views. GAVIN NEWSOM I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's b... STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken wit... BILL CLEGG My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ... FLORENCE WELCH My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a ... TAHMOH PENIKETT My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. INDIRA GANDHI When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w... MARKUS ZUSAK When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I... ISCO I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t... GEORGE TAKEI I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min... HENRY B. EYRING My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c... ICE T I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said t... RALPH NADER My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five. MADI DIAZ At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- an... DAN STEVENS All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm s... RACHEL BILSON My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I als... ERIN WASSON My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I hel... JOSEF ALBERS Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ... ALEXANDER DOWNER And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such ... JUAN GOYTISOLO I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a ch... CASEY WILSON My dad picked me up and rocked me in the chair. I felt small and weak and I wanted to hold him back ... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy ba... LEE RYAN We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And... OMARI HARDWICK I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a... RENE AUBERJONOIS My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball. STEVE NASH It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ANNE SEXTON I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both... FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh... JIDENNA Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother w... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around a... PATRICK NESS When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River o... BRAD PAISLEY I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali... NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many w... KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. RICHARD LLEWELLYN I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was alre... HARBHAJAN SINGH I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments... CHRISTIAN MCKAY I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p... BRANDON LEE My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It st... LES CLAYPOOL When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and somethi... MARV LEVY What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song... HUGH LAURIE My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little tow... BOB LILLY I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-... MIUCCIA PRADA I was a full-blown tomboy; I was very mischievous and got into a lot of trouble. Everybody in my fam... TIG NOTARO It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals wh... DREXEL DEAL My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, c... EZRA MILLER Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work ... BARBRA STREISAND My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. ANTHONY BROWNE My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, ... JODI PICOULT I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f... INDIRA GANDHI 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD It was fun and great to see my other friends who practically grew up with me sign. COURTNEY MCCOMAS As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitat... JUSTIN BIENVENUE I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S... LYNDON JOHNSON When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c... HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT
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VINCE STAPLES My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had t... VINCE STAPLES You're either ghetto or you're not. VINCE STAPLES When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big. VINCE STAPLES Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals. VINCE STAPLES I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft... VINCE NEIL With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. VINCE NEIL I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t... VINCE NEIL I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i... VINCE NEIL Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just... 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Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy. VINCE GILL I do not like being famous. I like being normal. VINCE GILL I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do. VINCE GILL And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away ... VINCE GILL So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in plac... VINCE GILL I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. VINCE GILL Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is gr... VINCE GILL I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous. VINCE GILL The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may b... VINCE GILL I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to d... VINCE GILL Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c... VINCE GILL When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character. VINCE GILL When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to s... VINCE FLYNN Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny. VINCE FLYNN One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig. VINCE FLYNN I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. VINCE FLYNN I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it. VINCE FLYNN It's what every writer needs: a daybed. VINCE FLYNN I just look at what's going on in the world. VINCE FLYNN I'm a bit of a Libertarian. VINCE FLYNN A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should ... VINCE FLYNN No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, ... VINCE FLYNN My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well. VINCE FLYNN It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most in... VINCE FLYNN I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is goi... VINCE FLYNN There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. VINCE FLYNN And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept... VINCE FLYNN I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them! VINCE CLARKE I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key... VINCE CLARKE When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com... VINCE CLARKE I'm a lover of songs. VINCE CLARKE I started writing songs at age 15. VINCE CLARKE When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyo... VINCE CLARKE I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,... VINCE CLARKE Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. VINCE CLARKE With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im... VINCE CLARKE I just think people should be able to express themselves. VINCE CARTER I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports. VINCE CARTER I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last... VINCE CARTER My first dunk was actually in sixth grade. VINCE CARTER I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's... VINCE CARTER I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do ... VINCE CARTER There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I... VINCE CARTER Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how. VINCE CARTER Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while..... VINCE LOMBARDI The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. VINCE LOMBARDI It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. VINCE LOMBARDI The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. VINCE LOMBARDI Fatigue makes cowards of us all. VINCE LOMBARDI Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. An... VINCE LOMBARDI The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what h... VINCE LOMBARDI Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their... VINCE LOMBARDI In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow t... VINCE POSCENTE