- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buried my dad the day I started Craig David's tour. Buried him, got on this tour bus in Stratford, and hit the road. Mixed emotions.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a great dad.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was an army cook, so I sort of come from that. But, working on 'Westworld,' a lot of the guys who I'm rolling up in there with, they're actually ex-military people.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020