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Related largest and most expensive marketing failure since the Edsel. ADAM JAFFE My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, would be proud of (Walker) for recognizing what that car was worth. BOB KREIPKE 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... AL SHARPTON I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became busines... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. SIDNEY POITIER My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o... AARON KLUG My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ... DAGOBERTO GILB My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING My father had the knowledge and such a good work ethic that at times he was sent to Washington Natio... JOSEPH WEISS He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedd... SAMANTHA BOND My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS I don't know if [Davis] knows this, but my father passed away last summer. He became a father figure... ROBERT VADEN My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was... VAL KILMER When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office ... DONALD TRUMP, JR. My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am... JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry an... MARY BARRA My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany ov... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and trem... SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And... MARK HELPRIN My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. RICHARD FORD Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own c... CESAR ROMERO 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 My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH They'll know you've arrived when you pull up in a '58 Edsel.... EDSEL FORD I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve... SANDRA CISNEROS In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ... DANNY BROWN My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ... TONY SHALHOUB I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro... ELEANOR CATTON I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mo... CARRIE COON My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. F... ILYASAH SHABAZZ I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa... PATTI DAVIS I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got in... ERIN ANDREWS My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ... LAURA BELL BUNDY And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and h... BIBLE I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w... GEORGE ZIMMER I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's b... STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. The... JAMEY SHERIDAN My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ... SALLY MANN Everybody knew my father. He wasn't a troublemaker. My father was working. He didn't bother anybody.... JOSE SERVELLON I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kan... DAVID CONE I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But wh... MICHELLE OBAMA When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his sku... JANET YELLEN Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did... CHERYL LADD In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India. MANOJ BHARGAVA As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven... ALICE SEBOLD My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed... CLAUDE CHABROL My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re... ANGELA AHRENDTS I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath... ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ... CARMEN BUSQUETS I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb... CAMERON MACKINTOSH As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphan... WAYNE DYER My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m... RADHANATH SWAMI Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime... PATTI DAVIS I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro... JOSEPH ABBOUD I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland... JOHN C. HAWKES "Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he... SØREN KIERKEGAARD I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. ... JAMES D. WATSON My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffa... HELENE D. GAYLE Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Ev... PALOMA PICASSO I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certaint... YEHUDA BERG Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studie... CHRISTY TURLINGTON My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father. AL SHARPTON My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag... WESLEY CLARK He invested in share market and it fell; then he invested in gold market and it too fell; at last he... DR HITESH C SHETH My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family member... BRAD PAISLEY
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, bu... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reac... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anythin That Makes You Weak Physically, Intellectually And Spiritually, reject As Poison . SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monke... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is the search for freedom--and ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA I leave none bound, I take no bonds. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! SWAMI VIVEKANANDA He who knows how to obey knows how to command. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. SWAMI NIRMALANANDA We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even... SWAMI PRABHUPADA It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are dri... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman ... SWAMI BEYONDANANDA The five points of yama , together with the five points of niyama , remind us of the Ten... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got ... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t... SWAMI PRABHUPADA In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. ... SWAMI BRAHMANADA डेविड ने मुझे यह महसूस कराया कि कार्यस... OM SWAMI Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impress... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA [T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta , the Brahmic tim... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thre... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide… SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You are the creator of your own destiny SWAMI VIVEKANANDA WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fea... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA To succeed,you must have tremendous perseverance,tremendous will.
"I will drink the ocean" says the ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are pass... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ASANA Now I shall instruct you regarding the nature of asana or seat. Although by 'asana... SWAMI LAKSHMANJOO If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suff... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA They alone live, who live for others. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wro... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA