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• My dad’s a very shrewd, clever guy.

  Christopher Thomas Howell

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  Tags in Dad, Guy

• I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn’t have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn’t complain. They didn’t murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

  Evander Holyfield

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  Tags in Complain, Dad

• You can’ t help being a musician because you’ve grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don’t have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Dad, Grown

• Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually – well… if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It’s the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Dad, Felt

• I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I’d gone with him to Japan in ’91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Gigs, Dad

• I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Dad, Knew

• I don’t really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Dad, Hanging

• ‘Keep your head down at school.’ Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Check, Dad

• Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

  Edward Thomas Hardy

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  Tags in Lived, Dad

• I’d like to play Matt Damon’s daddy. He’s a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I’d like to play his dad one day.

  Larry Hagman

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  Tags in Actor, Dad, Admire

• There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

  Matthew Robert Smith

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  Tags in County, Dad

• My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

  Suraj Sharma

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  Tags in Dad, Engineer

• My mom’s a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

  Seth Rogen

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  Tags in Worker, Dad

• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  Julia Roberts

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Dad, Young

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

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  Tags in Dad, Live, Forget

• I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn’t have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Mom, Dad

• Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Dad, Important

• Every kid needs to say, ‘I want what my mom and dad have.’

  Josh McDowell

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  Tags in Mom, Dad, Needs

• Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Good, Dad

• My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

  Paul McCartney

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  Tags in Music, Dad, Him