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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 father started me singing in church."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
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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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"I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England."
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"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
Father

"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."
Death

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
Art

"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School

"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
Class

"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
Time

"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
Father

"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
Architecture

"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
Art

"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
Age
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