"Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security."
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"Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!"
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"No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
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"If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author."
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"Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it."
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"Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'"
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"My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you."
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"My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love."
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"I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay."
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"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work."
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"I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy."
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"My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch."
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"Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day."
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"Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace."
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"You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life."
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"Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look."
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"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed."
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"Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow."
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"My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot."
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"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
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