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BART STUPAK
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT
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DAVID KRUMHOLTZ
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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
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes... CHRIS ROCK It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a fa...
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to we...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish ...
BILLY WILLIAMS The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling o...
JOHN DICKERSON
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#... DAN FEUERRIEGEL
Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on t... RYAN HOLMES As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat...
BRUCE SMITH
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister cal... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime... PATTI DAVIS My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the ...
ALICIA COPPOLA I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats... YANCY BUTLER I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's ... TOM BRADY
When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ... ETHEL KENNEDY
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I... ED KOCH He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ...
RONAN FARROW I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me... RALPH FIENNES When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY
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
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit... JOHN HUME I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show... TED DANSON I am grateful for my father's legacy. I am grateful to have found out who my real friends are. I...
GRACE POE
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di...
TREY SONGZ
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult ...
BILLIE WHITELAW
I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket. VIRAT KOHLI
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE
I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he's out there himself and he'... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. 
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. 
Control your own destiny or someone else will. 
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. 
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio... 
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... 
If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... 
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... 
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... 
The team with the best players wins. 
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. 
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. 
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f... 