My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
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Related My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from th... ALEXIS OHANIAN Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go... CAMILLE PAGLIA My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age... CESAR MILSTEIN I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit ... EUGENE JARECKI I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ... BLAKE BAILEY 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 always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... TERRY WOGAN My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter... SHIRIN NESHAT This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father... BRUNO SCHULZ When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w... LEE BYUNG-HUN My greatest success story has been my family. ALEX SPANOS My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. ARTHUR ROCK He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. H... DONALD MILLER My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - h... LAURA MOSER Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an Americ... SEAN SPICER My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that som... HUEY NEWTON My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM Two days after the season was over, he was in the cages. He worked all winter on a consistent approa... BOB MELVIN When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto... TED DEMME I watched him and how much he enjoyed it. His success was probably a factor on my wanting to be a co... WAYNE GRETZKY I thought last year was a miraculous year for him. And he definitely earned my respect last year as ... DAVE DUNCAN My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond... MAIRA KALMAN I was an original Aberdeen kid, ... My father came here in 1937. I left in 1950, moved to New York, ... DANIEL CHANDLER Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon. DARIUS RUCKER My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. ELIZABETH MCGOVERN A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER I didn't come from a success lineage but I am so glad that my earthly lineage is not my final story ... PATIENCE JOHNSON Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year... BRETT FAVRE I built a company, a team, and a brand that started right here. It was an American success story, an... DOUG DUCEY My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha... JOHN MORGRIDGE I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON Success is not the end of a story it's a beginning of a new story. KOWSALAPATHY 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, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the... GARRY HYNES My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was. DAVID HOLT My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m... BRIAN COX I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a... NED VIZZINI I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids... AMY CHUA I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ... WYCLEF JEAN It's a great success story. FRANK MCCRADY It's a tremendous success story. ERNIE BARNETT My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemie... G.K. CHESTERTON My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP It is a success story in the history of conservation. And it's nice that it's happening to a species... CHRIS TOLLEFSON Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wante... TIM ALBRIGHT My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible ... JONATHAN IVE A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitat... JUSTIN BIENVENUE Brazil is a big success story in this. DANIEL KAMMEN I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai... PATRICK STEWART My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always ro... RABIH ALAMEDDINE My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ... CARMEN BUSQUETS My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister... JULIANNE MOORE Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Suess ... JIM CARREY As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name... LEO LATLIP My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. KARAN JOHAR [Dr. Rushworth Kidder] was exactly what we were going for. We wanted someone dynamic. He told a stor... JUSTIN OSSOLA I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kan... DAVID CONE My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a ... HALEY JOEL OSMENT Failure is not the end of a story it's only an intermission for a success. KOWSALAPATHY It'll be a success story if he builds (the program) up again. And me being a part of that would be s... DAN PENICK My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver... DIANA QUICK My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. BEAU BRIDGES We're obviously disappointed in losing Brian for the year. Brian was having a great season, and he w... BOBBY PETRINO My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he mu... ZINEDINE ZIDANE Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an o... BILL COSBY I know that he was very intelligent. He was as good in school as he was in sports. He was very good ... MARTIN BRIERE We named a lot of our signature dishes after his plays. He was a great story teller. PAT HOGAN 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 the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownston... JANE KRAKOWSKI I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as har... ZINEDINE ZIDANE Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin... LUZ MARTINEZ My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ... KRISTIN HAWKINS My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very... NICK SAGAN It was a huge success. So much so that (Leader) decided he wanted to bring it to the county prisons. MARCIA SINKOVITZ My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio... OLIVIER MARTINEZ My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He ... WILLIAM BALDWIN Why make that such a big story and not make a bigger story of the success we've all had? DARON RAHLVES So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think... GILBERT RYLE My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM They're coming back. They're a success story. JANET MURPHY Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se... JIM CARREY I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI So what’s your story?” he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. “I already told y... JOHN GREEN He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any ... DONALD MILLER
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I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose... EUGENE DEBS They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ... EUGENE DEBS The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything. EUGENE DEBS Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of... EUGENE DEBS Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. EUGENE DEBS I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them arson, robbery, or assassin... EUGENE DEBS Your honor, I ask no mercy, I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. ... EUGENE DEBS Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room ... EUGENE CERNAN (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com... EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel... EUGENE JARVIS We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breath... EUGENE CERNAN How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a... EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl... EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences EUGENE WIGNER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me. EUGENE CERNAN Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game... EUGENE MCCARTHY Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos... EUGENE KENNEDY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact... EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to. EUGENE ORMANDY There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ... EUGENE LEVY When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t... EUGENE O'NEILL at least provides some judicial review. EUGENE FIDELL Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. EUGENE O'NEILL Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a co... EUGENE IONESCO The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn t... EUGENE KENNEDY I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get w... EUGENE FIELD She is continuing a tradition EUGENE FIELD All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You ... EUGENE FIELD I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath chang... EUGENE FIELD The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat EUGENE FIELD