“My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.”
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“Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.”
“I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.”
“When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.”
“If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.”
“I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.”
“My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.”
“I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.”
“My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.”
“Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'”
“In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.”
“My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.”
“My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'”
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.”
“But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.”
“My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'”
“Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.”
“I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'”
“My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.”
“I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.”
“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.”
“The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.”
“When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.”
“My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.”