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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know who my dad is.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
- Conway
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
- Photographer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020