The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Related My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER 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 was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me... MARINE LE PEN My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. AMY SEDARIS Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never g... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di... CHARLES SCHWAB My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN 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 Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Ev... PALOMA PICASSO My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis... TERRY WOGAN My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would... TIGER WOODS My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag... GORE VIDAL I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c... MONA SIMPSON My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connec... RAM KAPOOR I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav... LIZA MINNELLI I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I jus... ADAM SANDLER My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to... ROBERT VADEN I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over te... ALBERT PUJOLS My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. EMINEM I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou... SALLY PEARSON At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn... PORTIA DE ROSSI My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. CHARLEY PRIDE My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house... ORIANA FALLACI I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him. KIM CATTRALL I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t... CAROLINE KENNEDY I don't know if [Davis] knows this, but my father passed away last summer. He became a father figure... ROBERT VADEN I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example... LARRY FITZGERALD At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was ba... JENNIFER LYNCH I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because... BRUCE FORSYTH My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anyt... ZIGGY MARLEY I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won... KENDRA WILKINSON I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that... JENNIFER GRANT He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. CARRIE FISHER Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't a... TIBOR FISCHER I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had ... CHARLES FRAZIER My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha... ROBERT F. ENGLE He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. RYAN REYNOLDS It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b... RICHARD GERE These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but ... IDI AMIN My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis... ANNA MOUGLALIS Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we ... JENNIFER ESPOSITO People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with hi... BOB NEWHART I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look... BRUCE PALTROW My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. AARON PAUL I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my f... SPIKE MILLIGAN I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparent... BRITT EKLAND I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister cal... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;... QUENTIN BRYCE I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F... PETER FONDA My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex... JOAN COLLINS My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever... TONY DUNGY My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm ve... OONA CHAPLIN I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've ... NEYMAR My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I ... RUDOLPH VALENTINO My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m... FRANCIS CAPRA My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him. REY MYSTERIO I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. The... TAMRON HALL I've always liked long hair. My dad's always had long hair, but he always tells me, 'I n... DAVID SEAMAN The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2... DEVAL PATRICK I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteac... CHARLES KURALT I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something... JEAN NIDETCH My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre... RAM KAPOOR I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I... JOSH TURNER My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I wo... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid... HERB RITTS Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give ... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids. ERIC D. THOMAS I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w... AMY CHUA My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, ... CAROL BARTZ I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it'... EMILY WATSON My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't... PARIS JACKSON
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XAVIER BECERRA The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to ... XAVIER BECERRA Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration o... XAVIER BECERRA My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jal... XAVIER BECERRA It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy. XAVIER BECERRA As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes. XAVIER BECERRA Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. XAVIER BECERRA Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever expe... XAVIER BECERRA We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never fac... XAVIER BECERRA We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq. XAVIER BECERRA I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of Amer... XAVIER BECERRA According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with m... XAVIER BECERRA But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to co... XAVIER BECERRA The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol. XAVIER BECERRA Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste... XAVIER BECERRA Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality o... XAVIER BECERRA According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age ... XAVIER BECERRA The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to ha... XAVIER BECERRA February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that... XAVIER BECERRA Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. XAVIER BECERRA Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. ST.FRANCIS XAVIER ā€ˇThough nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending... CHICO XAVIER Life can be seen through your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea... MARY XAVIER Life can be seen your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. MARY XAVIER It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage... XAVIER BECERRA Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix. XAVIER NIEL My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid.... XAVIER RUDD Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college... XAVIER BECERRA