"Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language."
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"Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food."
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"While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them."
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"It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'"
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"Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would."
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"My heart belongs to daddy."
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"Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute."
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"My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out."
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"We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'"
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"I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!""
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"Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us."
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"Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way."
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"So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write."
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"I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things."
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"With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up."
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"T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy."
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"The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan."
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"At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here."
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"I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths."
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"If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school."
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