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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
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My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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My father was a huge influence on me.
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The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He...
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My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di...
LINCOLN STEFFENS![]()
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My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou...
PAULA DANZIGER My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
GEORGE AKERLOF With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
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If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
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SALMAN RUSHDIE My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
ZOE WANAMAKER My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
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people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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RUDY GIULIANI![]()
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON![]()
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD![]()
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
LIZA MINNELLI![]()
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER![]()
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable...
JOYCE MEYER My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so ...
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape...
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My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
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I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
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PATRICIA RICHARDSON My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
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I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the...
TAJ MAHAL![]()
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo...
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY![]()
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY![]()
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI![]()
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respecte...
JANE PAULEY I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA![]()
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi...
DAVID BOWIE I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people...
KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY![]()
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
BEAU BRIDGES My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin...
YAYA DACOSTA Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ...
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
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When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH![]()
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 dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
CHRISTIAN BALE In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ...
DANNY BROWN My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think ...
NELL NEWMAN![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ...
JORDAN SONNENBLICK My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE![]()
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r...
DAN RATHER![]()
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub...
EDWARD BROOKE![]()
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE 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 My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON
DANNY AIELLO My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,... EDMONIA LEWIS
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 My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
ALAN SUGAR
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. JAKES
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER
My father was a huge influence on me. CAROL LEIFER
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He... RON REAGAN
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... LINCOLN STEFFENS
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. JAMES CAMERON
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
GEORGE AKERLOF With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my...
DORIS EATON TRAVIS Danny was never a follower, always a trendsetter. I've had the pleasure of getting to know Danny as ...
DAVID MORALES My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
ZOE WANAMAKER My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. DAVID JOHANSEN
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he... CATHERINE BELL The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. BRODERICK CRAWFORD
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. LIZA MINNELLI
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable... JOYCE MEYER My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so ...
RICHARD J. ROBERTS
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape... ROBERT HARRIS My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But...
CLAIRE DENIS
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the...
TAJ MAHAL
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... SPIKE MILLIGAN
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respecte... JANE PAULEY I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people...
KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. BEAU BRIDGES My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
SADIE JONES
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin... YAYA DACOSTA Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
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 dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring. CHRISTIAN BALE In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ...
DANNY BROWN My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think ...
NELL NEWMAN
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ...
JORDAN SONNENBLICK My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r... DAN RATHER
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub...
EDWARD BROOKE
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE 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 My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON
People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a goo... 
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source... 
Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone e... 
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sh... 
Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain. 
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shu... 
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. 
make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “... 
Half this game is 90% mental. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCartney are vegans, and what they stand for is the complete elimination of the killin... 
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n... 
I love action films. I don't really like drama. 
To travel is to take a journey into yourself. 
I am a wife-made man. 
There is a danger in democracy itself. 