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"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."

"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."

Hugh Jackman, Australian Actor

Father, Dad, Friends, Kids, Now

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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."

"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."

A. J. Foyt, American Celebrity

Father, Dad, People, Successful, Luck

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"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."

"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."

Lil' Romeo, American Musician

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"I am sorry I could not see my father."

"I am sorry I could not see my father."

Leon Czolgosz, American Criminal

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"My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen."

"My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen."

Jonny Lang, American Musician

Father, Dad, Friends, Guitar, Medicine

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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?"

"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?"

Kojo Annan, Swiss Celebrity

Father, Rest, Senators, Will

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"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

Colin Baker, British Actor

Father, End, Income, University

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"My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk."

"My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk."

Karl Malden, American Actor

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"He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around."

"He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around."

Julian Lennon, English Musician

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"I want to be a soldier as my father was."

"I want to be a soldier as my father was."

Kaspar Hauser, German Celebrity

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"On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad."

"On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad."

Julian Lennon, English Musician

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"I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too."

"I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too."

Paul Walker, American Actor

Father, Dad, Life, Time

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"He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one."

"He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one."

Julian Lennon, English Musician

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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."

"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

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"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

Alexandra Kerry, American Actress

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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."

Joe Davis, American Celebrity

Father, Kids, Name, School

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"Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad."

"Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad."

Dexter S. King, American Activist

Father, Dad, Writing

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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"

"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"

Cassandra Dunn, American Psychologist

Father, Forget, Man, Want

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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Father, Nothing

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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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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."

"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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Father, Daughter, Living, May

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

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

Mohith Agadi, Indian Poet

Father, Family, Respect, Guidance

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