889 private quotes tagged dad

“My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.” — Neil Cavuto

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“I've always wanted to be a dad.” — Kris Allen

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“My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.” — Ezra Koenig

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“When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.” — Warwick Davis

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“My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.” — Glen Hansard

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“My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.” — Ron Wood

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“There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.” — Owen Hart

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“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.” — Tom Shadyac

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“Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.” — Lynn Johnston

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“My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.” — Branford Marsalis

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“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.” — Joe Wright

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“I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.” — Parker Stevenson

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“My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.” — Taryn Manning

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“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” — Evander Holyfield

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“As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.” — Taryn Manning

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“I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.” — Owen Hart

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“My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.” — Sam Brownback

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“And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.” — Nigel Lythgoe

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“My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.” — Kris Allen

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“My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'” — Gayle King

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“My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.” — Michael Shannon

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“Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.” — Dan Auerbach

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“Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!” — Lionel Richie

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“My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.” — Susana Martinez

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