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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

Shakira

Think, Businessman, I Think

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

Shakira

Age, Me, Nobody

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Shakira

Football, Passion, Escape

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

Shakira

Man, Inspiration, Adore

My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.

Alain de Botton

Believe, Magic, Idiots

My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.

John Cena

Time, Night, Favorite

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Michael Leunig

Father, Smiling, Wise

My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

Trent Reznor

Friends, Best, Guitar

My dad is an egomaniac.

Sia

Egomaniac

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

Peter Jackson

Think, Interest, I Think

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Peter Jackson

Father, War, World

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Mike Birbiglia

War, Like, Through

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Father, End, Alphabet

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

Christina Milian

Life, Impact, Me

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

Ron White

Driving, Years, Back

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

Karin Slaughter

Growing Up, Growing, Up

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

Karin Slaughter

Thought, Bike, You

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

Donna Brazile

Strong, Girl, Me

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

Donna Brazile

Life, Family, American

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

Claire Danes

Face, Think, Say

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

Ashton Kutcher

Job, Restaurant, Dust

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

Bruce Springsteen

Work, Family, Nature

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.

Bruce Springsteen

Life, Think, Him

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy.

Anushka Sharma

Water, School, Road

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

Laura Dern

Yourself, Me, People

My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

Laura Dern

Great, Struggle, Me

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

Laura Dern

Art, Journey, True

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Rick Scott

Education, School, Started

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Jason Bateman

Character, Writing, Me

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

Jason Bateman

Age, Father, Movies

You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.

David Shields

Life, Matter, You

I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

Aisha Tyler

Day, Me, Video Games

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

Aisha Tyler

Deep, Sea, Construction

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

Aisha Tyler

Single, Kind, Always

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

Aisha Tyler

Day, Care, Strangers

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

Bill Hader

Listening, Remember, Big

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Jeb Bush

Relationship, People, You

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

Jeb Bush

Life, Me, Think

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

Jeb Bush

Transition, Think, First

Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

Theophilus London

Style, Influenced, He

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

Theophilus London

Me, Clothes, Remember

The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.

Kate Moss

Time, Week, Remember

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

Rachel Kushner

Motorcycle, Shadow, World

I have my dad's shape. No booty.

Queen Latifah

Booty, Shape

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

Tiger Woods

Beautiful, Best, Trying

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux

Writing, Rivalry, Confident

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Bono

Today, Overcoming, Me

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

Father, Me, Measure

When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.

Priyanka Chopra

Me, Monkey, Little

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Sam Shepard

Life, Luck, Suffering

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

Sam Shepard

Man, Me, Old Man

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

Bob Newhart

Memories, Great, Me

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.

Megyn Kelly

School, Heart, Me

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

Katee Sackhoff

Work, Hard Work, Work Hard

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Dave Grohl

Children, Daughter, Stress

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

James Nesbitt

Work, Hard Work, Mother

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Beyonce Knowles

Work, Family, Parents

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jerry Hall

Home, Stress, War

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

Nikki Reed

Years, Houses, Many

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

Jason Day

Motto, Fight, Me

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

Jason Day

Aggressive, Violent, Really

When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.

Bindi Irwin

Life, Work, Yourself

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Life, Money, Culture

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

Travis Scott

Me, Three, Years

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein

Doubt, Depressing, Too Much

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cancer, Grandfather, Uncle

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

Mahesh Babu

Father, Progress, Brother

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

David Mamet

Life, Management, Ideas

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

David Mamet

College, Lawyer, Know

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Diane Lane

Work, Father, Strong

My greatest dream is to work with my dad someday as an actress.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Work, Dream, Greatest

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

Bryce Dallas Howard

People, Young, Festival

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

Steve Carell

School, Me, Worry

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Anthony Hopkins

Father, Man, Grounded

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Zadie Smith

Life, Mother, Short

I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

Natalie Cole

Love, I Am, Fun

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

Alexa Chung

Hair, Me, Years

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Stephen Curry

Me, Season, Grind

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Herbie Hancock

Father, World, Me

I don't think I can boast about him. 'Hey, my dad is a British institution; he's done all these incredible things and I'm really proud of him.' There is a certain baggage that comes with that in England.

Rebecca Hall

Proud, Think, I Can

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

Future

Best, Not Perfect, Perfect

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

Amy Jackson

Hair, Dark, Blonde

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

Jeremy Corbyn

Peace, War, Civil War

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

Jessica Simpson

Best, Heart, Job

I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.

Harry Kane

Brother, Pride, Remember

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

Johnny Van Zant

Time, Driving, Truck

My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

Johnny Van Zant

Road, Ride, Down

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

David Harewood

Mother, Parents, Up

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

Will Ferrell

Time, Unique, Me

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

Shaun White

Me, Face, Said

People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.

Katie Taylor

Stupid, Mind, People

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

Christopher Buckley

Life, Day, Red

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

Ben Zobrist

Time, Church, Pastor

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

Lizzie Armitstead

Small, Garden, Remember

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Paul McCartney

World, Doing, You

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Paul McCartney

Kind, Guy, Courteous

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'

John C. Reilly

Life, Brother, Me

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

Geoff Dyer

Life, Home, Money

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

Diego Costa

Football, Son, Gift

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

Lily James

Weird, Nice, Idea