Quotes by category:Dad

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years... by Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what

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The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you ar... by Mario Joyner

The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my... by Marisa Miller

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

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

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Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

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Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

Mariska Hargitay

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My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitud... by Mariska Hargitay

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

Mariska Hargitay

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Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.

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I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.

Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.

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If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

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My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

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Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for anyone. I could write a very nice instrumental. So she always sort of gives me a hard time because it's just such a ridiculously impossible standard to live up to, that your step-dad wrote that song for your mom.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

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As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

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