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• I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Soul, Energy

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Personality, Chinese

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Style, Communism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.

  Martin Lawrence

  Mother, Father, Boxing

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• I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

  Naomi Campbell

  Father, Real, Figures

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

  Richard Gere

  Father, Sibling, Directors

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

  Wyclef Jean

  Father, School, One Day

  "Singer-songwriter-activist Wyclef Jean". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.

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• What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

  Arthur Koestler

  Family, Father, Fall

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• Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

  Phil Thompson

  Father, Special, Sound

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• George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Father, Hands

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• [Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

  Jordan Peele

  Brother, Father, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

  Wyclef Jean

  Family, Father, Mama

  Song: New Day

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• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Father, Champion

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Father, Knowing

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• How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

  Phil Plait

  Father, Thinking, Afterlife

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• The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

  Raul Hilberg

  Father, World, Figures

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• I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of being in a long-lasting relationship? Psh, I couldn't last more than six months with somebody, let alone have a father figure around for a kid. I mean, if I could give a kid a father figure, that would be amazing.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Running, Father, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reagan loved and respected his father, Jack Reagan. But if there was a father figure to Reagan in the religious sense, it was Ben Cleaver. What Reagan's father didn't provide spiritually, from a fatherly point of view, Cleaver did.

  Paul Kengor

  Religious, Father, Views

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Who are we to tell Lonzo Ball how to raise his kids. He's very entertaining and you've got to remember, guys, weren't we saying the same things about Richard Williams and Earl Woods? And how did their kids turn out? This works for the Ball family. He's a strong father figure. His kids love him and respect him, so what's everyone complaining about?

  Mychal Thompson

  Strong, Father, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last years and King Lear is such an accurate portrayal of a father figure suffering from dementia - the play was almost intolerable for me.

  Gregory Doran

  Father, Suffering, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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