My Dad Quotes - Page 13

• I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Memories, Dad, Years

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• I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.

  Kim Su-mi

  Memories, Dad, Drama

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• Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?

  Sonam Kapoor

  Dad, Ashes

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• People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Mother, Dad, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Teacher, Jobs, Dad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Growing Up, Dad, Heart

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

  Kamasi Washington

  Morning, Dad, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Notebook, Dad, Father

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• I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Dad, Home, Years

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• Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Style, Shout Out

  "Theophilus London Was So Fresh, So Clean, On 'when I Was 17'" by Sara Waber, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Clothes, Manhattan

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• My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Dad, School, Parent

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• So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

  Billy Sherwood

  Dad, Guy, Band

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• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

  Erin O'Connor

  Dad, Eggs, Meals

  "Erin O'Connor: 'I burnt my parents' lovely new kitchen down. But they forgave me in the end'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Years, Married

  Evening Standard, p. 16, May 2, 2013.

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• My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.

  Elvis Costello

  Stars, Dad, Father

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

  Elvis Costello

  Dad, Father, Play

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

  Elvis Costello

  Jobs, Dad, Play

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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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, Dad

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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, Dad, Kids

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• Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, Teaching

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• In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dad, School

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• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  Adam Sandler

  Dad, Thinking, Skateboarding

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