"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

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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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"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."

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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

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"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

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"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

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"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

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"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."

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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."

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."

"Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.Happy Father's Day!"

"My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script."

"The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow."

"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

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

"I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed."

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"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

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