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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
— Jonathan Sacks
Freedom is control in your own life.
— Willie Nelson
Liberty is worth paying for.
— Jules Verne
A hungry man is not a free man.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
— James Russell Lowell
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
— Allen West
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
— Coretta Scott King
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'
— John Shelby Spong
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
— Glenn Beck
I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
— Hedy Lamarr
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
— Dan Savage
I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
— John Bolton
None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
— Dan Stevens
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
— Will Durant
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
— Pearl S. Buck
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
— Bernard Baruch
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
— John Ralston Saul
Freedom is not just declared it is exercised. 
— Ferdinand Marcos
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
— Herbert Spencer
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
— Quentin Crisp
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
— George Pataki
I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
— Psy
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.
— Ellsworth Kelly
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
— Henri Bergson
It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
— Niall Ferguson
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
— Dave Brubeck
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
— Dave Brubeck
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
— Floyd Abrams
Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.
— Michel Houellebecq
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
— Gary Ackerman
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin
Free men are the strongest men.
— Wendell Willkie
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
— Lawrence Lessig
Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.
— David Tennant
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
— Felix Frankfurter
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
— Thomas Moore
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
— Bill Owens
We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.
— George Allen
Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
— Luke Scott
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
— Anthony Lewis
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
— Robin Morgan
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
— Fatos Nano
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
— Archibald MacLeish
Human beings crave freedom at their core.
— John Ensign
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
— Charles Kingsley
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
— Kathleen Battle
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
— Warren E. Burger
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
— Os Guinness
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
— Ben Nelson
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
— Friedrich Engels
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
— Rajneesh
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
— Anthony Kennedy
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
— Trent Lott
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
— Geoffrey Fisher
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
— Herbert Marcuse
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
— Silvio Berlusconi
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
— Chris Bell
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
— Hart Crane
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
— Guy Verhofstadt
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
— Kurt Huber
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
— Rose Wilder Lane
I didn't come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique - for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.
— David Schweikert
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
— Audie Murphy
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
— Powell Clayton
Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.
— Suriya
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
— Robert G. Allen
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
— DeForest Kelley
I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.
— Paris Jackson
My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
— Gareth Bale
I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there.
— Bradley Steven Perry
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
— Joe Biden
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
— Spike Milligan
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
— Bindi Irwin
After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.
— Rob Lowe
Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.
— Bindi Irwin
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.
— Steve Albini
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
— Miguel Indurain
Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth, and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.
— Paul Hollywood
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
— Eminem
Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.
— Kevin Connolly
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
— Pete Rose
You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
— Courteney Cox
I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
— Joan Cusack
My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'
— Luke Benward
I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
— Bill Belichick
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
— Pope John XXIII
I just wish I could understand my father.
— Michael Jackson
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
— Ray Romano
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
— Sidney Poitier
I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.
— Suresh Raina
Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!
— Domhnall Gleeson
I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.
— Carson Wentz
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
— Frank Bruno
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
— Adam Sandler
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.
— Steve Irwin
Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'
— Jennifer Grant
The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
— Oliver North
Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.
— John Cena
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
— Gloria Swanson
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
— Horace
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
— Margaret Mead
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
— Halle Berry
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
— David Rockefeller
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
— Chief Joseph
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
— William Hurt
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
— Clyde Edgerton
You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
— Dusty Baker
There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.
— Armaan Malik
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.
— Michael B. Jordan
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.
— Marisa Miller
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
— Shakira
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
— Phil McGraw
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
— Taryn Manning
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
— Miley Cyrus
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
— Geoffrey Rush
We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.
— Tom Brady
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
— Patrick Swayze
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
— Jennifer Aniston
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
— Ronnie O'Sullivan
As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.
— Cyrus S. Poonawalla
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.
— Luke Bryan
My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.
— Nolan Gould
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
— Dolores Huerta
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
— Raf Simons
I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
— Lou Doillon
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
— Marilyn Manson
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
— Bill Gates
Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.
— Sean Patrick Maloney
I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.
— Tyler, The Creator
My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.
— Patty Loveless
I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.
— Bindi Irwin
I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
— Doreen Cronin
Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.
— Charlie Puth
I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.
— Paris Jackson
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
— T. J. Perkins
I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.
— Johnny Iuzzini
I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
— Ram Charan
I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
— Sidney Poitier
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
— Buzz Aldrin
My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
— Lily Collins
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
— Taylor Swift
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
— Natalie Massenet
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. 
— Tom Hiddleston
I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.
— Justin Bieber
My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
— Luke Bryan
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
— Jay-Z
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior. 
— Laura Wasser
My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.
— Sonakshi Sinha
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
— Jordan Spieth
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
— Jordan Spieth
My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!
— Blake Lively
With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.
— Bindi Irwin
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
— Jeff Bridges
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.
— Cory Booker
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'
— Mike Birbiglia
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
— Shah Rukh Khan
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
— Zosia Mamet
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.
— Miranda Kerr
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.
— Ken Buck
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.
— Tony Hawk
My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
— Bellamy Young
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
— Mahershala Ali
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
— Hugh Jackman
My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.
— Future
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
— Shia LaBeouf
My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.
— Chad le Clos
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
— Guy Fieri
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
— Jamie Oliver
My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.
— Anthony Joshua
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
— Paul Ryan
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
— Ville Valo
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
— James Packer
One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.
— Shawn Michaels
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
— Anthony Kiedis
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
— Frank Bruno
One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
— Dana Perino
I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.
— Willie Geist
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
— Tony Hawk
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
— Dimebag Darrell
Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.
— Tyler, The Creator
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
— Aldous Huxley
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
— Anais Nin
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
— Jennifer Garner
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
— Beth Ditto
Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
— Kate Winslet
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
— J. J. Watt
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
— Shia LaBeouf
I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
— Cameron Diaz
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
— Josh Charles
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
— Jimmy Fallon
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
— Bobby Clarke
My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.
— Domenico Dolce
I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
— Wayne Dyer
My family always helped me. I had people around me who always pushed me to be the best: my dad, my mum. My dad used to play and coach as well. But I wasn't born with shiny things.
— Paul Pogba
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
— Wiz Khalifa
On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.
— Ridley Scott
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
— Dean Koontz
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
— Enid Bagnold
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
— Imelda Marcos
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
— Amy Heckerling
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
— Barry White
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
— Tatum O'Neal
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
— Frank Butler
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
— Steve Irwin
Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.
— Marla Maples
You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
— Tim McGraw
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
— Stephen King
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
— Jenna Bush
I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.
— Michael Rosenbaum
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
— Haley Joel Osment
I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.
— Anthony Kiedis
My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
— Ariel Winter
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
— Rory McIlroy
Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
— Hugh Jackman
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
— Larry Elder
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
— Betty White
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
— Ben Barnes
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
— Jeffrey Kluger
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
— Quentin Bryce
You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.
— Mark Ronson
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
— Marina and the Diamonds
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
— Rafe Spall
My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.
— Dolores Huerta
One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'
— China Anne McClain
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.
— Michael Moore
I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.
— Molly Quinn
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'
— Kirk Douglas
I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?
— Russell Wilson
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
— Jordana Spiro
My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.
— Tess Gerritsen
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.
— Tess Gerritsen
I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' was when I was asked if I'd had enough.
— Bob Diamond
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.
— Thierry Henry
I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
— Haley Bennett
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
— Gabriel Basso
Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
— Lyle Lovett
I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
— Ben Roethlisberger
My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
— Cory Booker
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
— Anthony Browne
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
— S. Robson Walton
I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
— John Mackey
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.
— King Tuff
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
— Chelsea Cain
I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.
— Luis Coronel
One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
— Bindi Irwin
There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
— Rory Kinnear
If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.
— Jason Day
I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.
— Jason Clarke
I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.
— Stewart Butterfield
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
— Princess Eugenie of York
I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.
— Tory Lanez
I'm definitely the super-cool dad.
— Ty Dolla Sign
When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.
— Jovan Adepo
I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.
— Shraddha Kapoor
I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan