My Dad Quotes - Page 31

• I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.

  Corinne Bailey Rae

  Children, Dad, White

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

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• I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.

  Richie Havens

  Country, Mother, Dad

  "Richie Havens Interview: Woodstock, Dylan and Greenwich Village". Interview With Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concertos, but then I started rounding out my collection. My dad was a big jazz fan, so I just started hearing a lot more soul music. I loved Little Stevie Wonder, and I got really into him as a singer and a writer as I got older.

  Toby Lightman

  Dad, Player, Soul

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• My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.

  Wayne Watson

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

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• My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

  Kevin Hart

  Dad, Kids, Consistency

  "The Many Sides of Kevin Hart's Heart" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 16, 2014.

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• You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Dad, Busy

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• I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Thinking, Nuts

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• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  Mahesh Babu

  Summer, Stars, Children

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• I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Dad, Issues, Dying

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

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• My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

  Ray Davies

  Dad, Taught, Used

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• My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

  Elvis Costello

  Children, Dad, Thinking

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• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  Eddie Marsan

  Dad, Men, Boys

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• To me, my Dad's the greatest guy - next to Jesus Christ - who ever walked this planet. He's been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he's still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, 'Wouldn't do anything behind your back that I wouldn't do to your face.'

  Aaron Tippin

  Jesus, Dad, Role Models

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• My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

  Kate Upton

  Sports, Mom, Dad

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

  Meg Cabot

  Teacher, Dad, Regret

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

  Phil Daniels

  Kings, Dad, Block

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• My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

  Russell Peters

  Dad, Guy

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• All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

  Dick Cavett

  Mother, Teacher, Dad

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• The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

  Dick Cavett

  Dad, Benefits, Facts

  "Cavett's Conversations: 'When People Simply Talk'". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 9, 2010.

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• When I was 13 I told my dad I'd rather kill myself than do an ordinary job. He vaguely muttered something about how I'd need to earn a living somehow, but he's been totally behind me, forking out money he didn't really have to send me to university. Every other comedian I've met had to fight their parents to be allowed to do this but mine have been brilliant.

  Noel Fielding

  Jobs, Dad, Fighting

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• My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hurt, Jobs, Dad

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.politico.com.

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• I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

  Rebecca Mader

  Dad, Thank God, Body

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

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• I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Stars, Dad, Growing Up

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

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• I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

  Jordan Spieth

  Dad, Golf, College

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

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• I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

  Neil Oliver

  Dad, Slave, Thousand

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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