"I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son."
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"My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man."
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"There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch."
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"On working with his father in Pursuit of Happyness: It was fun having that experience with my dad 'cause he really taught me a lot of the stuff that he knows. Almost everything he knows about acting in that one movie."
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"My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm."
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"Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me."
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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much."
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"I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together."
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"All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek..."
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"Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation."
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"Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow."
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"That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her."
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"This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby."
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"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately"
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"My father and mother separated when I was two months old."
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"My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words."
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"I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'"
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"My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol."
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"If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence."
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