Dad Quotes - Page 21

• When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

  Amy Irving

  Children, Home, Differences

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• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Musician Chris Isaak". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

  Chris Isaak

  Mom, Song, Growing Up

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• As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

  Connie Mack IV

  Believe, Son, Kind

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Real, Rocks, Uncertain Times

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• I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

  Max Irons

  Thinking, Smoking, Looks

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• My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

  Brion James

  Night, Theater, My Dad

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• I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Sorry, Years, Two

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

  Shooter Jennings

  Kids, Important, Good Dad

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• My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

  Thomas Jane

  Entrepreneurial, Ability, Businessman

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• Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

  Lydia Ko

  Uncles, Golf, Aunt

  US Golf Association Interview, www.usga.org. August 11, 2012.

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• I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

  Nicole Krauss

  Notebook, Writing, Green

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• Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mother, Men, East

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

  Taylor Kinney

  Thinking, Would Be, Pleasure

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

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• I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

  John C. McGinley

  My Family, Homebodies, Ifs

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Pigs, Social Taboos, Barns

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• My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

  Rob James-Collier

  Mom, Brother, Giving

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

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• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Class, Ties

  "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Important, Dying

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• From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Divorce, Looks

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Views, Socialist

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

  Kim Kardashian

  Mom, Mom And Dad, Wanted

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's Interview with Cover Stars Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. November 28, 2011.

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• All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

  Lil' Kim

  Cute, Men, Dating

  "A Whole Lotta Lil' Kim". www.newsweek.com. June 25, 2000.

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• I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Past, Koalas, Tree

  "'I believe in celebrating the female figure' says a very hot, very naked Miranda Kerr" by Caroline Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

  Allen Leech

  Running, Growing Up, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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