My Dad Quotes - Page 20

• My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• I spoke to my dad, and he said it took close to 90 dollars to raise me. But that was me and my sister, and my sister moved out when she was 16, so sometimes it can knock you up to triple digits to raise a kid.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

  Tom Johnson

  Dad, Cowboy, Community

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, Dad, Thinking

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sports, Brother, Growing Up

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

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• Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Dad, Book, Home

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

  Missy Higgins

  Dad, Responsibility, Thinking

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• My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

  James Arthur

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Fun, Dad

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Dad, Guy

  "Comedy gold: Norm Macdonald's Me Doing Standup" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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• It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.

  Kim Kardashian

  Dad, Important, Genocide

  "'This is like a miracle': Kim Kardashian tells sister Khloe that she's pregnant with second child on season premiere of KUWTK". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 21, 2015.

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• My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Dad, Different, Answers

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

  Rankin

  Dad, Thinking, Impact

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.

  Rankin

  Dad, School, Class

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.

  Bob Schneider

  Dad, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

  Heather McDonald

  Dad, Children, Judgement

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• It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

  Drake Bell

  Dad, Hey, Actors

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  Christopher Bailey

  Growing Up, Dad, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Fun, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

  SZA

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dad, Awards, Ideas

  "Ed Begley Jr. on Blunt Talk, St. Elsewhere, and Spinal Tap". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2015.

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• I think it's becoming rarer and rarer when I consider the experiences that I've had in my life between my dad and my brother and all the men in my life who have all been gentlemen and have looked after women.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.

  Trevor McNevan

  Sports, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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