"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."

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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"My father started me singing in church."

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

"My father loved people, children and pets."

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."

"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

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"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."

"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."

"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it."

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

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