My Dad Quotes - Page 39

• My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's work. My Dad took a night class from him at the University of Toledo. Without that class, I wouldn't have become a photographer, because my Dad came home and taught me what he learned in class.

  Sam Abell

  Dad, Home, Night

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"
  And I always say, "My Dad."

  Sam Abell

  Dad, People, Would Be

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• My valentine is always my dad.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dad, Valentine

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Meat, Necks

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• I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, White

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• I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

  Janet Jackson

  Horse, Dad, Jockeys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

  Max Lucado

  Mom, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.

  Alan Robert

  Dad, Book, Men

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Baseball, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

  Paul Young

  Dad, Saving, Worried

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about.

  Paul Beatty

  Dad, Korea, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

  Bryan Cranston

  Dad, Kids, Profound

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.

  Joe Buck

  Dad, Games, Different

  Source: thebiglead.com

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• My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Dad, Doctors, Extroverts

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

  Peter Breggin

  Dad, Caring, Thoughtful

  Source: whale.to

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• My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

  Bill Ayers

  Dad, Democrat

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• When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.

  Bill Ayers

  Mom, Dad, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My dad told me at the very beginning of my career, basically, "If you're gonna have a megaphone, you're gonna need to use it to do some kind of good." He has always been aggravated by any kind of celebrities that don't have any charities or love or passion or something they're trying to help.

  Ben Feldman

  Dad, Passion, Careers

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  Source: latinalista.com

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• Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Dad, Writing

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!

  Mel Gibson

  Dad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

  Mel Gibson

  Dad, Pay, Likes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

  Judd Nelson

  Senior, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it's like, "Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can't punch the clock at the same place?" So part of it was a kind of exercise. "Can I be responsible in this way?" And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It'd be bad if I couldn't.

  Judd Nelson

  Dad, Independent, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.

  Warren Buffett

  Dad, Home, Kids

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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