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But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.	Sidney Poitier	Integrity, Good, Man
I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.	Suresh Raina	Gift, Think, First
Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!	Domhnall Gleeson	Family, Time, Father
I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.	Carson Wentz	Love, Time, Football
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.	Frank Bruno	Brother, Mental Illness, You
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.	Adam Sandler	Father, Perfect, Speech
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 past.	Steve Irwin	Memories, Childhood, Past
Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'	Jennifer Grant	Life, Simple, My Life
The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.	Oliver North	Motto, War, Mind
Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.	John Cena	Home, Together, Parents
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.	Gloria Swanson	Life, Said, Anticipation
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.	Horace	You, Will, Sins
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.	Margaret Mead	Accidents, Social, Fathers
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.	Halle Berry	Life, Father, Man
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.	David Rockefeller	Father, Philanthropy
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.	Chief Joseph	Life, Father, My Life
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.	William Hurt	Father, Successful, Me
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.	Clyde Edgerton	Happy, Being Happy, Child
You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.	Dusty Baker	Father, You, Kind
There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.	Armaan Malik	Light, Today, I Am
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.	Michael B. Jordan	Sorry, Orange, Born
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.	Marisa Miller	Time, California, Bonding
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.	Shakira	Hero, Me, See
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.	Phil McGraw	Thought, Worry, People
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.	Taryn Manning	Sister, Brother, Growing Up
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!	Miley Cyrus	Better, Know, Nice
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.	Geoffrey Rush	Time, Culture, School
We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.	Tom Brady	Change, Happy, Day
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.	Patrick Swayze	Believe, Shoulder, Like
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.	Jennifer Aniston	Actor, Way, Skating
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Football, Golf, Tennis
As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.	Cyrus S. Poonawalla	Great, Horse, Saying
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.	Luke Bryan	Rain, Good, Sky
My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.	Nolan Gould	Military, Trying, Adapt
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.	Dolores Huerta	Father, Strong, Personality
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.	Raf Simons	Two, Mercedes, Things
I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.	Lou Doillon	Home, Women, Hate
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.	Marilyn Manson	Believe, Me, You
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.	Bill Gates	Parents, Growing Up, Growing
Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.	Sean Patrick Maloney	Good, Win, Greatest
I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.	Tyler, The Creator	Life, College, My Life
My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.	Patty Loveless	Work, Day, Home
I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.	Bindi Irwin	Everything, Footsteps, Hard
I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!	Doreen Cronin	Time, Police, Long
Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.	Charlie Puth	Song, Me, Know
I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.	Paris Jackson	Great, World, Know
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.	T. J. Perkins	College, Growing Up, Think
I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.	Johnny Iuzzini	Work, Family, Money
I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.	Ram Charan	Time, Working Hard, Working
I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.	Floyd Mayweather, Jr.	Happy, Team, Me
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.	Sidney Poitier	Good, Father, Man
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.	Buzz Aldrin	Service, Military, Cemetery
My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.	Lily Collins	Me, Laugh, Story
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.	Taylor Swift	Butterfly, World, Me
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.	Natalie Massenet	Mountain, Me, Never
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.	Tom Hiddleston	Son, Society, Know
I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.	Justin Bieber	Family, Myself, Start
My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.	Luke Bryan	Business, Time, Fishing
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.	Jay-Z	Love, Experience, Pain
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.	Laura Wasser	Family, Best, Great
My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.	Sonakshi Sinha	Father, I Am, Believe
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.	Jordan Spieth	Friends, Brother, Winning
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.	Jordan Spieth	Life, Day, College
My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!	Blake Lively	Best, Great, Me
With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.	Bindi Irwin	Warrior, Wildlife, Him
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.	Jeff Bridges	I Am, Think, Product
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.	Floyd Mayweather, Jr.	Art, Good, War
My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.	Cory Booker	Time, Mother, Parents
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'	Mike Birbiglia	Team, Father, Path
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.	Shah Rukh Khan	Father, Husband, Fail
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.	Zosia Mamet	Persistence, Talent, Me
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.	Harry Connick, Jr.	Mother, Me, Play
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.	Miranda Kerr	Life, Tree, Past
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.	Ken Buck	Change, Change The World, Me
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.	Tony Hawk	Work, Money, Son
The child is father of the man.	William Wordsworth	Father, Man, Child
My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.	Bellamy Young	Be Yourself, Yourself, You
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.	Mahershala Ali	Myself, Impact, Me
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.	Hugh Jackman	Losing, Selfish, Gentleman
My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.	Future	Choice, Career, Comfortable
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.	Shia LaBeouf	Motorcycle, Hollywood, Guy
My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.	Chad le Clos	Life, Mind, Me
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.	Guy Fieri	Trying, Candy, Back
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.	Jamie Oliver	Memories, Together, Cooking
My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.	Anthony Joshua	Life, Deep, Together
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.	Paul Ryan	Life, Sister, Me
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.	Ville Valo	Dog, Best, Best Friend
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.	James Packer	Good, Good Night, Night
One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.	Shawn Michaels	Time, Fun, Remember
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.	Anthony Kiedis	Father, Me, Selfishness
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.	Frank Bruno	Good, Healthy, Want
One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.	Dana Perino	Time, Myself, Me
I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.	Willie Geist	Home, Voice, Remember
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.	Tony Hawk	Children, Support, Doing
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.	Dimebag Darrell	Book, Advice, Play
Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.	Tyler, The Creator	You, Need, Things
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.	Daniel Radcliffe	City, Small, Know
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.	Aldous Huxley	Wish, Rebellious, Always
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.	Anais Nin	Time, Father, Slavery
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.	Jennifer Garner	Mother, I Am, People

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

Integrity, Good, Man

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

Suresh Raina

Gift, Think, First

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

Domhnall Gleeson

Family, Time, Father

I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.

Carson Wentz

Love, Time, Football

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Frank Bruno

Brother, Mental Illness, You

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Adam Sandler

Father, Perfect, Speech

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 past.

Steve Irwin

Memories, Childhood, Past

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

Jennifer Grant

Life, Simple, My Life

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

Oliver North

Motto, War, Mind

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

John Cena

Home, Together, Parents

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Gloria Swanson

Life, Said, Anticipation

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

You, Will, Sins

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

Accidents, Social, Fathers

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Halle Berry

Life, Father, Man

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

Father, Philanthropy

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph

Life, Father, My Life

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

William Hurt

Father, Successful, Me

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton

Happy, Being Happy, Child

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker

Father, You, Kind

There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.

Armaan Malik

Light, Today, I Am

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

Michael B. Jordan

Sorry, Orange, Born

I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

Marisa Miller

Time, California, Bonding

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Shakira

Hero, Me, See

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw

Thought, Worry, People

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.

Taryn Manning

Sister, Brother, Growing Up

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Miley Cyrus

Better, Know, Nice

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Geoffrey Rush

Time, Culture, School

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Tom Brady

Change, Happy, Day

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

Patrick Swayze

Believe, Shoulder, Like

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Jennifer Aniston

Actor, Way, Skating

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Football, Golf, Tennis

As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla

Great, Horse, Saying

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

Luke Bryan

Rain, Good, Sky

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

Nolan Gould

Military, Trying, Adapt

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Dolores Huerta

Father, Strong, Personality

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

Raf Simons

Two, Mercedes, Things

I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

Lou Doillon

Home, Women, Hate

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Marilyn Manson

Believe, Me, You

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

Parents, Growing Up, Growing

Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.

Sean Patrick Maloney

Good, Win, Greatest

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

Tyler, The Creator

Life, College, My Life

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

Patty Loveless

Work, Day, Home

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Bindi Irwin

Everything, Footsteps, Hard

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Doreen Cronin

Time, Police, Long

Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.

Charlie Puth

Song, Me, Know

I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

Paris Jackson

Great, World, Know

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

T. J. Perkins

College, Growing Up, Think

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

Johnny Iuzzini

Work, Family, Money

I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

Ram Charan

Time, Working Hard, Working

I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Happy, Team, Me

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

Sidney Poitier

Good, Father, Man

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Buzz Aldrin

Service, Military, Cemetery

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Lily Collins

Me, Laugh, Story

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

Taylor Swift

Butterfly, World, Me

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

Natalie Massenet

Mountain, Me, Never

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Tom Hiddleston

Son, Society, Know

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Justin Bieber

Family, Myself, Start

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Luke Bryan

Business, Time, Fishing

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Jay-Z

Love, Experience, Pain

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

Laura Wasser

Family, Best, Great

My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.

Sonakshi Sinha

Father, I Am, Believe

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

Jordan Spieth

Friends, Brother, Winning

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

Jordan Spieth

Life, Day, College

My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

Blake Lively

Best, Great, Me

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.

Bindi Irwin

Warrior, Wildlife, Him

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

Jeff Bridges

I Am, Think, Product

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Art, Good, War

My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

Cory Booker

Time, Mother, Parents

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Mike Birbiglia

Team, Father, Path

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

Shah Rukh Khan

Father, Husband, Fail

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Zosia Mamet

Persistence, Talent, Me

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Mother, Me, Play

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Miranda Kerr

Life, Tree, Past

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

Ken Buck

Change, Change The World, Me

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

Tony Hawk

Work, Money, Son

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth

Father, Man, Child

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Bellamy Young

Be Yourself, Yourself, You

I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

Mahershala Ali

Myself, Impact, Me

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Hugh Jackman

Losing, Selfish, Gentleman

My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.

Future

Choice, Career, Comfortable

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

Shia LaBeouf

Motorcycle, Hollywood, Guy

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

Chad le Clos

Life, Mind, Me

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Guy Fieri

Trying, Candy, Back

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

Jamie Oliver

Memories, Together, Cooking

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.

Anthony Joshua

Life, Deep, Together

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

Paul Ryan

Life, Sister, Me

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Ville Valo

Dog, Best, Best Friend

Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.

James Packer

Good, Good Night, Night

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.

Shawn Michaels

Time, Fun, Remember

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Anthony Kiedis

Father, Me, Selfishness

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Frank Bruno

Good, Healthy, Want

One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

Dana Perino

Time, Myself, Me

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

Willie Geist

Home, Voice, Remember

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

Tony Hawk

Children, Support, Doing

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Dimebag Darrell

Book, Advice, Play

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

Tyler, The Creator

You, Need, Things

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

Daniel Radcliffe

City, Small, Know

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

Wish, Rebellious, Always

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

Time, Father, Slavery

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

Jennifer Garner

Mother, I Am, People