"My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'"
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"'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'"
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"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs."
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"I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe"
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"Rich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.'"
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"Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along."
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"I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver."
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"My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work."
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"I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night."
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"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes."
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"My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands."
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"My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year."
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"Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility."
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"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
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"Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see."
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"One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad."
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"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."
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"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later."
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