Dad Quotes - Page 30

• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  Jack White

  Father, Three, Bob

  "The Mysterious Case of the White Stripes" by David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. September 8, 2005.

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• One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

  Rufus Wainwright

  Glasses, Piano, Worry

  Song: Montauk, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Brother, Memories

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• Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

  Harold Perrineau

  Daughter, Way, Flaws

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• Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

  Rick Remender

  Kids, Intelligent, Supportive

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• My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Brother, Memories

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• Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it!

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Names, Office, Google

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• A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.

  Gilbert Arenas

  School, Looks, Four

  "Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Real

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• Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Daughter, Sex

  Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.

  Leona Lewis

  Strong, Believe, Mean

  Now Magazine, July 2008.

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• My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.

  Tanya Tucker

  Decision, Levels, Matter

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2009.

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• Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

  Bill Engvall

  Son, Yesterday, Yards

  "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Book by Bill Engvall, 2002.

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• Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Jobs, Believe

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• This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Morning, Tonight, Lasts

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• We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.

  Chris Gardner

  Mom, Spiritual, Eye

  "Chris Gardner | Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

  Julia Sawalha

  Long, Competition, Gone

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• My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

  Alex Trebek

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, we know that we love each other, keep communication open. We knew how unique this was-you're doing a movie that really could be put out there all over the world, and you're telling this personal story about your family.

  Andrew Shue

  Communication, Unique, Stories

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• We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

  Beau Bridges

  Blessed, Years, Feels

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

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• I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 7, 2004.

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• My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

  Irene Cara

  Cousin, Brother, Grandmother

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• In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

  Paul Reiser

  Guy, Different, Scripts

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• When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Girl, Jobs, Thrill

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• My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Kids, Hockey

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