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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020