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Small: My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that youd be able to sit back in En
"My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin"
Desmond Llewelyn, Actor
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Small: Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family
"Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful"
Sam Sheppard, Scientist
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Small: My father wasnt a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people.
"My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14"
Max Weinberg, Musician
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Small: To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies
Red Auerbach
"To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies"
Red Auerbach, Coach
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Small: My father and brothers were coal miners
"My father and brothers were coal miners"
Merle Travis, Musician
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Small: But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband
"But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband"
Treat Williams, Actor
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Small: I want to be a soldier as my father was
"I want to be a soldier as my father was"
Kaspar Hauser, Celebrity
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Small: When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday Id use it in a book
"When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book"
Paula Danziger, Author
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Small: My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed
"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
Charles Moore
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Small: My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened
"My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over"
Sigourney Weaver, Actress
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Small: When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck
"When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning"
Marv Levy, Coach
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Small: My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to
"My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money"
James Green Somerville
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Small: Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one jo
"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction"
James Blunt, Musician
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Small: It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at th
"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings"
George Barr McCutcheon, Novelist
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Small: I dont hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I dont panic. My father was the same way. Im th
"I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?"
Curt Schilling, Athlete
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Small: My mother didnt try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that
"My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that"
Alan Alda, Actor
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Small: I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I
"I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there"
Agnes Macphail, Politician
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Small: I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. Thats not to say
"I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same"
Mark Davis, Writer
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Small: As Ive gotten older, Ive gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. Its so shocking to m
"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair"
Lauren Graham, Actress
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Small: I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic
"I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic"
Josh McDowell, Writer
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Small: To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession
"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession"
William Standish Knowles, Scientist
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Small: I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your
"I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week"
Tony Shalhoub, Actor
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Small: You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and hed be back
Priscilla Presley
"You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else"
Priscilla Presley, Actress
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Small: I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis
"I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis"
Phil Collins, Musician
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Small: For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbe
"For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift"
Michael Milken, Criminal
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Small: My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mothers peopl
"My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship"
Joseph C. Lincoln
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Small: My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massac
"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education"
John Knowles, Novelist
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Small: The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the
"The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith"
Ignatius Loyola, Clergyman
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Small: Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or h
"Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask"
Richard Neal, Politician
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Small: I worked with my son when he was much younger we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he playe
"I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great"
Rene Auberjonois, Actor
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Small: With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing abo
"With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish"
Vince Gill, Musician
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Small: There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk t
"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about"
Shirley Knight, Actress
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Small: Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They dont mean anything
Oliver Hudson
"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything"
Oliver Hudson, Actor
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Small: We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence"
Joseph Roux, Clergyman
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Small: I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist
"I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist"
Ray Conniff, Musician
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Small: I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relation
"I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times"
Sam Sheppard, Scientist
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Small: My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918
"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918"
James Rainwater, Scientist
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Small: My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbi
"My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science"
Norman Lamm, Educator
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Small: Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakeni
"Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father"
Jim Jeffords, Politician
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Small: My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled
"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled"
Tom Berenger, Actor
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