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"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Father, Dad, Fact

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"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."

"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Father, Husband, Nothing

43

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."

Jay London, American Comedian

43

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."

Spike Milligan, Irish Comedian

Father, Influence

43

"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."

"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, British Actor

Father, HusbBoyfriend, Guest

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"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."

"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

Father, Dad, Money, Stress

43

"The singing was something I got from my father."

"The singing was something I got from my father."

Woody Herman, American Musician

Father, Singing

43

"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."

"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."

Oliver Hudson, American Actor

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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."

"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, American Actor

Father, Dad, Class, Country

42

"My father was gone when I was three years old."

"My father was gone when I was three years old."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Father, Old, Years

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"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general."

"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

Father, People, Play

42

"When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs."

"When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs."

Tony Visconti, American Musician

Father, Christmas, Guidance, Old

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"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."

"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

42

"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."

"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

42

"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."

"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."

Andy Partridge, British Musician

Father, Guitar, Play

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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."

"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, American Actor

Father, Dad, Job, Play

42

"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."

"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."

Danny DeVito, American Actor

Father, Wife, Son

42

"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."

"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."

Nikki Sixx, American Musician

Father, Dad, Mom, Being

42

"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."

"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, Australian Scientist

Father, Dad, People, Childhood, Memories

42

"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."

"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, American Actress

Father, Dad, Challenge, Fight, Now

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"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."

"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."

Lara St. John, Canadian Musician

Father, Dad, Forget, Will

42

"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"

"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"

Cary Grant, American Actor

42

"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."

"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."

Alvin Lee, English Musician

Father, Dad, Listening

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"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

Emo Philips, American Comedian

Father, Girlfriend

42

"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."

"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

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"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."

"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."

John Malkovich, American Actor

Father, Measure, Wrong

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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."

"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."

Philip Warren Anderson, American Scientist

Father, Impression, EnglEurope

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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."

"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, English Clergyman

Father, Fathers, Promise

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"There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did."

"There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

Father, Dad, End, Shame

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"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

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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."

"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, American Actress

Father, Dad, Growing up, Wood

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"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."

"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."

Jensen Ackles, American Actor

Father, Job, Months

41

"My dad says he likes to bask in my glow."

"My dad says he likes to bask in my glow."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

41

"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."

"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

Father, Military, World

41

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."

Austin O'Malley, American Physicist

Father, Man, Misfortune

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"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."

"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."

Clyde Tombaugh, American Scientist

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"I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'"

"I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'"

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

Father, Dad, Drama, Girls

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"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."

"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."

Janis Joplin, American Musician

41

"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."

"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."

January Jones, American Actress

Father, Dad, Health, Sports

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"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."

"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."

Herbie Hancock, American Musician

Father, HusbForget, World

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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."

"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, Jamaican Musician

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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."

"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

Father, Memories

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"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

Wynton Marsalis, American Musician

Father, Son, School

41

"Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight."

"Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight."

Marion C. Garretty, American Author

41

"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."

"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, American Actor

Father, Dad, Community, First, Force

41

"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."

"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, English Actress

Father, Brother, Chance, Job

41

"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."

"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

41

"My father and brothers were coal miners."

"My father and brothers were coal miners."

Merle Travis, American Musician

Father, Brothers

41

"I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together."

"I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together."

Vince Gill, American Musician

Father, Dad, Play, Songs

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"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24."

"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24."

Rachael Leigh Cook, American Actress

Father, Dad, Mom, Mother

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