Dad Quotes - Page 18

• I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

  Anthony Doerr

  Football, Play, My Dad

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

  Arne Duncan

  Supportive, Important

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Father, People

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Book, Men, Play

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• When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

  Hope Davis

  Mother, Iron, Shirts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

  Jerry Doyle

  Pride, Community, Police

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

  Josh Duhamel

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Kids, Thinking, Oklahoma

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• My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

  Alice Eve

  Character, Thinking, Perfectly Normal

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• My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

  Alice Eve

  Oxford, Careers, Doubt

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• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  Roger Federer

  Girl, Baby, Two

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• My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

  Roger Federer

  Tennis, Coaching, Littles

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

  Tommy Franks

  Mom, Country, Growing Up

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• I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

  Donald Glover

  Dark, Trouble, Favourite

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• My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

  Brian Austin Green

  Mother, Real, Thinking

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• I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, School, Opportunity

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• I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down to earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mother, Dream, Smart

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Oklahoma, Dust

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• My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Mom, Thinking, President

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• But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

  Lily Allen

  Daughter, Song, Father

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Wall, Berlin, Telling Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  College, Oxford, Important

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

  Charlie Bewley

  Swimming, One Day, Said

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Military, Army

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• I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

  Grant Bowler

  Self, Agents, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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