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"Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt."
Lizzie Andrew Borden
"Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt."
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"When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father."
Peter Fonda
"When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father."
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"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Anna Neagle
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
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"My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments."
Alexandra Kosteniuk
"My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments."
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"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."
Jessica Simpson
"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."
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"I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono."
Yancy Butler
"I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono."
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"I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
Phil Collins
"I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
Keith Thibodeaux
"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him."
Rosanne Cash
"Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
Anthony Hopkins
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat."
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"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
Cameron Diaz
"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
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"You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different."
Tom Felton
"You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different."
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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."
Miroslav Vitous
"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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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
Philip Warren Anderson
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
Tom Glazer
"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible."
Shia LaBeouf
"Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible."
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"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."
Adam Sandler
"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."
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"When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad."
Trevor Horn
"When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad."
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"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."
Tim Robbins
"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."
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"Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano."
Jackson Browne
"Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano."
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"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
Gloria Swanson
"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
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"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle."
Adam Sandler
"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle."
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"Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that."
Christopher Walken
"Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that."
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"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
Pierre Corneille
"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
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"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."
Jay London
"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."
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"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."
Steve Irwin
"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."
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"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."
Lara St. John
"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."
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"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."
Peter Criss
"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."
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"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."
Alvin Lee
"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."
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"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
Dick Dale
"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
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"We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did."
Thomas Goodwin
"We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did."
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"I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up."
Jennifer Lawrence
"I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up."
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"I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character."
Vin Diesel
"I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character."
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"My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike."
Jacky Ickx
"My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike."
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"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."
Nikki Sixx
"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."
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"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
Ziggy Marley
"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
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"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather."
Albert Finney
"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather."
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"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."
Ted Rall
"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."
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"The singing was something I got from my father."
Woody Herman
"The singing was something I got from my father."
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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."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"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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"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."
Oliver Hudson
"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."
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"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."
Andy Partridge
"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
Rod Stewart
"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels."
Thomas Traherne
"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels."
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"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
Camryn Manheim
"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
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"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him."
Linda Evans
"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him."
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"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target."
Jerry Doyle
"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target."
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"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
Alan Ladd
"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
Lady Gaga
"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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