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Herbie Hancock

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."

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"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."

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"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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"My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong."

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"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."

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"What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?"

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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

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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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"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."

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