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Father Quotes
"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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"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
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"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'"
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"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."
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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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"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."
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"My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire."
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"I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress."
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"Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight."
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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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"That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke."
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"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea."
6
"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."
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"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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"I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17."
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"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."
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"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."
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"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."
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"My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?"
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