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Father Quotes
"I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great."
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"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
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"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."
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"Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system."
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"I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness."
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"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
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"My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew."
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"Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."
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"Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful."
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
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"My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet."
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"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."
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"The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being."
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"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."
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"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
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"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."
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"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
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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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"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison."
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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"
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"My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it."
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"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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