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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fear, Man, Mind

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Mitt Romney

Family, Revolution, Mexican

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Joyce Meyer

Truth, God, Wife

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

Marco Rubio

Country, You, Accomplish

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

Michelle Obama

School, Remember, Roof

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

Clint Eastwood

Believe, Conservative, You

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Clint Eastwood

War, World, First

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

Michael Moore

Time, Good, Government

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Lady Gaga

Girl, Night, Italian

I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Lady Gaga

Love, Hope, Good

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

Lady Gaga

Happy, Good, Girl

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Joel Osteen

Father, God, Decision

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Joel Osteen

People, Grow, Born

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Joel Osteen

Me, Pressure, Try

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

Robert Kiyosaki

Decision, Comfortable, Knew

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

Robert Kiyosaki

Home, Real Estate, Hate

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

Robert Kiyosaki

Book, Financial, Rich

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Robert Kiyosaki

Care, Rich, Take Care

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

Rand Paul

Me, Think, I Think

My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.

Rand Paul

Four, Only, Who

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

Patti Smith

Money, Parents, Job

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

Jeff Bridges

Work, Together, Fun

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

Jeff Bridges

Father, Dress, Mind

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

Kate Winslet

Life, Actor, Driver

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up they just taught me to be me.

Kate Winslet

Life, Friends, Anxiety

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

Katy Perry

Family, Money, Me

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

Katy Perry

Family, Mother, Emotional

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food, Delicate, Few

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food, Busy, Three

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Kevin Hart

Life, Time, Women

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

Ted Cruz

World, Generation, Find

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

Ted Cruz

Love, Family, Tree

This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

Penn Jillette

Money, Know, You

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

David Bowie

I Am, Makeup, Me

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

David Bowie

Thought, Plan, Me

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Joss Whedon

Funny, Work, Great

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.

Howard Jacobson

Relationship, Sister, Son

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

Martin Freeman

Children, Want, You

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

Martin Freeman

Fifties, Like

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

James Wan

People, Seeing, Quirky

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

James Wan

People, Seeing, Quirky

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

Family, Father, Golf

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

Children, Society, Want

I drove my mum and dad mad.

Nicola Sturgeon

Mad, Mum, Drove

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

Steven Spielberg

Responsible, Issues, Been

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Steven Spielberg

Work, Time, Camera

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

Steven Spielberg

Experience, Me, Greatest

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

Steven Spielberg

Family, Together, Growing Up

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Ridley Scott

War, Man, World

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

Tracy Morgan

I Am, Men, Me

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Tracy Morgan

Life, Father, Me

My dad was good with actions.

William Shatner

Good, Actions

My dad died of a stroke.

William Shatner

Stroke, Died

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

Orlando Bloom

Child, Born, You

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

Orlando Bloom

Keep Going, Choice, Think

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

Daniel Radcliffe

Life, Time, Best

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

Daniel Radcliffe

Eye, Brilliant, Filter

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Guy Fieri

Business, Me, Company

I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking.

Ivanka Trump

Thinking, Think, Say

It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

Rita Ora

Change, Name, Said

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

Rita Ora

Sweetest, Mum, Couple

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

Rita Ora

Book, Successful, Me

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

Rita Ora

Love, Eating, Pie

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

Rita Ora

Job, First, Mad

I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.

Rita Ora

Love, Great, Clothes

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

Shia LaBeouf

Father, Me, Know

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

Shia LaBeouf

Happy, Be Happy, Want

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

John Lydon

Time, Death, Great

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

Joan Rivers

Funny, Father, Today

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Andy Serkis

Sister, People, Summer

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

Blake Lively

Home, Mother, Humble

My dad was an English professor.

Blake Lively

English, Professor

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Drew Barrymore

Money, Father, Great

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Jo Brand

Good, Best, Best Friend

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Jo Brand

Man, Rebellious, Sensitive

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Jo Brand

Political, Know, She

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Venus Williams

Dream, Me, Started

I'm always on the court with my dad.

Venus Williams

Always, Court

My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!

Venus Williams

Everything, Eat, He

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

Al Franken

Nature, Beautiful, God

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

Al Franken

Life, Money, Parents

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Al Franken

Loved, Comedians, Buddy

My dad was a terrible businessman.

Al Franken

Terrible, Businessman

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

Rob Lowe

School, Law, Always

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

Jason Statham

Fun, People, Want

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

Jason Statham

Growing Up, Growing, Bench

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

Jason Statham

Family, Good, Brother

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

Andie MacDowell

Me, Singing, Remember

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

Terry Pratchett

Heart, Man, Remember

Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

Dwayne Johnson

Family, Character, End

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

Dwayne Johnson

Family, Wrestling, You

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Tori Amos

Loving, Close, Upbringing

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Brad Goreski

Love, Time, Good

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.

Khloe Kardashian

Real, Say, Dumbest

If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

Jay-Z

Good, Better, You

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

Brad Paisley

Time, Walking, Fire

My dad was a preacher.

Matthew Desmond

Preacher

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

Charli XCX

Dress, Me, Weird

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Denis Leary

Age, Man, Plan

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

Chris Pine

Crazy, She, Grandmother