Dad Quotes - Page 26

• I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

  Victoria Gotti

  Home, Night, Thinking

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• When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Morning, Children, Home

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  Faith Prince

  Personality, Age, Battle

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Faith Prince & DROP DEAD DIVA - Plus Laurents, Robbins, MAME, GYPSY & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 14, 2011.

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Army, Funeral, My Family

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• My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

  Booboo Stewart

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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

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• I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

  Booboo Stewart

  Mom, People, My Dad

  "Q&A: Teen player Booboo Stewart is latest 'Twilight' breakout". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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• When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

  Nia Vardalos

  Magic, Musical, Theatre

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• Tejano music was hard for us because I was a girl. My dad had a lot of problems while trying to set up shows for us or presentations because there are a lot of men who don't think that women can get the attention of the public. But ... wrong!

  Selena

  Girl, Thinking, Men

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• How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Mean, Animal

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Long, Focus

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• My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

  Jason Gann

  School, Army, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  Zac Hanson

  Real, Kids, Years

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• As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

  David Lauren

  Fun, Kids, Unique

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• I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

  Katie Leung

  Home, Scotland, Speak

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• Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

  Katie Leung

  Brother, Men, Swans

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• My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

  William Levy

  Mother, Kids, Boys

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• My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

  Thomas Langmann

  Helping, Conviction, Said

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• I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

  Chaske Spencer

  Football, Player, Shoes

  "'New moon' Werewolf Chaske Spencer is looking good - with or without his shirt off" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. August 19, 2009.

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• My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

  Julie Salamon

  Country, War, Doctors

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• I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

  Eric West

  Strong, Water, Hot

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• I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

  Graham Yost

  Great Relationship, Great Dad, Stills

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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Night, Guitar

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• As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

  Todd Burpo

  Liars, Believe, Book

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• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Real, People, Giving

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• One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

  Lukas Haas

  School, Order, Giving

  "Actor Lukas Haas dons a hospital gown for MCR clip, works on debut LP" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 19, 2006.

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