Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
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DOROTHY BASS ATKINS Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me. DOROTHY ATKINSON My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY It was a privilege to work with Barry. He taught me a lot about people and the process we learned a... SUZANNE ANARDE This man here has taught me so much, and he guided me through a lot of things. He was just special. EDDIE MURRAY My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin. CALEB MITCHUM My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot... MARTINA MCBRIDE My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle p... PAUL RYAN Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor... SAM BARRY I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in ste... LAILA ALI Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was ju... RACHEL PLATTEN My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a str... LARRY FITZGERALD My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inheri... ALASTAIR CAMPBELL He was liked by students a lot. He was a demanding instructor, but he cared a lot about the students... DAN BLANKE My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. AMBER TAMBLYN Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. IRENE ROSENFELD I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu... NATASHA RICHARDSON My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who... N. SCOTT MOMADAY Coach Jones taught me a lot along the way. And of all the things he taught me, the one thing that st... COREY PARISH My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for support... TORI AMOS My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak... BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad in... CHARLIE PUTH It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. BEAU BRIDGES My dad and I have watched a lot of game tape together. He has helped me out a lot. DEREK HOELLEIN My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN My dad really started to love football during my sophomore season, which meant a lot to me because h... JULIAN DALANHESE My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game... RICKIE FOWLER What a man. He has taught me so much [that] got me through a lot of things. It was special. Ellie wa... EDDIE MURRAY He taught me a lot. I am always going to call him; he is my brother. JOSE MOLINA Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bone... DON RICKLES My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b... SIDNEY POITIER I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his... JESSE MCCARTNEY My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... DOLPH LUNDGREN My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He wa... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Mr. and Mrs. Baker were consummate professionals who taught us a lot that we didn't get through our ... HENRY LEWIS I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my da... CHRIS KYLE He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ... ANDREW KRIEG I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and ... HUGH JACKMAN Sir John was an excellent Commissioner and I was proud he invited me to speak at a number of his far... DAVID BLUNKETT Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi... MAGGIE PETERSON John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teachin... KALEY CUOCO It was a privilege to work with Barry. He taught me a lot about people and the process ââ�... SUZANNE ANARDE My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. TAGG ROMNEY Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me ... FAY WRAY I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to m... MARTIN MCGUINNESS I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an... CAROLYN BYERS RUCH I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about ... DARIA WERBOWY My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an... WALTER MOSLEY Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And... JACK OSBOURNE My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't hav... AL FRANKEN [Leo] left a wonderful legacy. He was always involved in every aspect of community. He was wonderful... JANICE FARINON Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he s... BRITTANY HOLESTINE My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore... ALISON GOLDFRAPP He's my backbone. He's taught me a lot. For starters, he tempered me down. KAREENA KAPOOR He was a valuable asset. He always helped me with the catchers, that's where his expertise was. He w... LYNDELL ZANOTTI My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li... MICHAEL HANEKE My dad was 16, and Liberace was 17. They were both finalists. My dad was a humble guy, but he was al... BARBARA WAGNER He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life. DAVE FLEMING I have learned that you have to buckle down. I think in a way my injury taught me a lot about that. ... MEGHAN RYAN I'm definitely ready for that to happen, 'cause I always want to play more minutes. Ron was my mento... DANNY GRANGER But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that h... NORMAN LEAR When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated... DAVID ALAN GRIER He didn't treat me as an ex-player. He allowed my opinion to mean something and he gave me a lot of ... MATT PAINTER My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his work... TIM KAINE My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS He helped me build my confidence. It was little things he has random meetings in the year to talk ab... MATT KOHN Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... PARIS JACKSON If it's true, he really let a lot of people down. He definitely has a lot of questions to answer. ROBERT WOLFE I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h... STEVE HARVEY Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight. MANNAA MANNAA My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been ab... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da... ERIC CHURCH He (Peel) was a wonderful person. He was a genuinely nice person, which is rare in this business. He... DAVID GEDGE I think that was when dad first realized how serious my twin brother and myself were of learning the... REX RYAN One of the things that has brought me a lot of success the last five years was performing. At my fir... JENNY PHILLIPS My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, ... STEVE HARVEY He loves the kids and does whatever he can to make them do their best. He is a wonderful father and ... BRENDA LEE The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He... RON REAGAN He invented a new genre in world choreography -- the genre of folk dance. He was the first man to se... YELENA SHCHERBAKOVA It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson... JAMES ROSENQUIST The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer... TRAVIS SCOTT We knew he was going to be good. He was very quick, he was really quick. One thing that impressed me... BILL CLIFFORD John Young is our unsung hero. The kid shuts down everyone's best player. He is the best defender ar... JOSH HOOD I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... JAMES TAYLOR 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 One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business scho... THOMAS G. STEMBERG
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have called her the next day. JOHN C LEHMAN My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was... JOHN C. MCGINLEY If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what ... JOHN C. MAXWELL I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it. JOHN C. MAXWELL Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles
never do. JOHN C. MAXWELL The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir... JOHN C. PARKIN It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa... JOHN C. BURTON Don JOHN C. MAXWELL I will tell each person what I have told others in the past JOHN C. METZLER Many veterans dream of being buried here. These grounds speak of dignity and respect, and the magnit... JOHN C. METZLER Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach thei... JOHN C. MAXWELL I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j... JOHN C. CALHOUN Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by... JOHN C. CALHOUN Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. JOHN C. LILLY In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. JOHN C. LILLY If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo... JOHN C. WHITE People never care how much you know until they know how much you care. JOHN C. MAXWELL In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. JOHN C. GRANVILLE We are approved by God, we don JOHN C. MAXWELL Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But wh... JOHN C. MAXWELL Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. JOHN C. GRANVILLE A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less th... JOHN C. MAXWELL