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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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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played at different restaurants with my dad for a good year before I started doing anything on social media. I wanted to hone my craft before I put anything out there.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
- Hug
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad doesn't hug me enough!
- Smoking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we got the chance to watch a game with my dad, it was like watching video with an NHL coach.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
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- Nov 07, 2020