I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
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He just made a great play. Give him credit. DUSTY DVORACEK I had no idea. Regardless of whether he's been sacked or not, we still have a bad taste in our mouth... ANDRE CARTER When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and... GARRY MARSHALL I lost a toenail on my foot and he questioned whether it was a real injury or not. GUILLERMO CORIA When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Da... CHARLES W. COLSON My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all abou... MONICA SELES My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whi... CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Everybody knew my father. He wasn't a troublemaker. My father was working. He didn't bother anybody.... 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He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or fo... VALENTINO ROSSI And then there is the black cat. Who has no other name than the Black Cat and who turned up almost a... NEIL GAIMAN He was an avid supporter who loved being here. He was always on the sidelines or front row, and had ... KATHY JOHNSTON This was our O.J. Simpson case. Everybody questioned - was he a forger or not? Was he a murderer or ... BOB STOTT When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the grea... DARLENE LOVE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. ... GRAHAM NORTON Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport ... MITCH HEDBERG A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite... UNKNOWN When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor,... T. J. PERKINS My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia... DEVAL PATRICK He was a manager on the field, ELROD HENDRICKS All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu... MICHAEL CONNELLY I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join ... SAM HEUGHAN It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a norma... EDEN HAZARD I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned. DAVID EDWARDS We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in youth ... ANDRE ARTERO Traditionally, Christmas Day is the busiest day of the year at 7-Eleven. A majority of our customers... CINDY DAVIS My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling. SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. BIBLE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m... BILL HARMON Thirty- eight years old and he was finished. He sipped at the coffee and remembered where he had gon... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was watching John, I thought he was the strongest. The Gerolsteiner rider... I think he was playin... JASON MCCARTNEY I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world... RICHELLE MEAD That was the sound I was looking for, and he's the one who can deliver it. He's been cutting sides o... GREG TROOPER My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. SPIKE MILLIGAN My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. SPIKE MILLIGAN It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau... WALT MOSSBERG The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On n... HERMANN HESSE He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shinin... LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER We had him for about nine years. He was nine years old. A great dog. Everybody loved him. BRIAN STACKPOLE I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 ye... LESLIE FIEDLER I've been reflecting on our friendship all day and I can't tell you how important Butch was to all o... DENNY POWELL He died of cancer on Christmas Eve when I was in my second year of law school. I know what that pain... CHARLES DUNCAN Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before... DOUGLAS BRUNT My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa... JENNIFER JOHNSTON I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the lo... PRANAB MUKHERJEE He gave me a hug and said he appreciated the visitors. He had a smile on his face, but he was devast... DARLEEN SIMONSEN It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I... CHRISTOPHER REEVE When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls. ZARA LARSSON When my son was really little, he assumed everyone was on TV because his uncle is on TV, my best fri... VIRGINIA MADSEN He was a hard worker. He was one of those guys you could count on. Eight o'clock in the morning or 1... BOB SHAW Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who h... JULIE OTSUKA My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every sin... JEFF LINDSAY He was in control of that real well. He putted a lot better on the second day because he was a lot c... DON PETERSON [He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ... MIGUEL OLIVO [He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ... MIGUEL OLIVO It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an ext... ROGER STAUBACH He came back after a month and had blisters on his feet. He was walking six hours a day. CHERYL MOORE We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book ... ROBERT FISK I don't think it was because I was playing against Housman that I had a good game. I think just he w... IBRAHIM JAABER You've heard of 12 days of Christmas. This was 12 years of Christmas for Ryan, Ryan's friends and hi... JOEL LEVIN I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lo... BENOIT ALLAIRE What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unf... ROHINTON MISTRY Charlie played a great game. It was his opportunity and he hasn't let us down. He had lost three tim... JORDI ARRESE My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG
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JOSE ANDRES China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismember... JOSE RIZAL There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, an... JOSE RIZAL Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough sta... JOSE MARTI But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give enco... JOSE MARTI An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-pre... JOSE MARTI I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies ... JOSE SARAMAGO I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosi... JOSE CANSECO I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never as... JOSE JAMES Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out ... JOSE FERREIRA I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how ... JOSE SARAMAGO I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. JOSE CANSECO When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, ... JOSE ANDRES A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef. JOSE ANDRES My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Euro... JOSE ANDRES We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. JOSE MARTI Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orang... JOSE ANDRES No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less u... JOSE RIZAL Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines... JOSE SARAMAGO In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating whil... JOSE ANDRES People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions ag... JOSE CARRERAS There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. JOSE BERGAMIN The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide... JOSE RIZAL I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. ... JOSE RIZAL Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are be... JOSE RIZAL