The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Michael Beschloss
FatherHistoryPeopleRememberBoy
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
Peter Eisenman
FatherGreatNewUpSeasonJersey
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
Immanuel Velikovsky
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It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.
Robert Duvall
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To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.
Louis Garrel
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I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.
Deborah Kass
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My father is the sun in my universe.
Meghan McCain
FatherSunUniverse
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
FatherSimplePersonMoreHumanOwn
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
Nancy Pelosi
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You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.
Sophia Bush
FatherBeautifulGreatChildParents
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
Dale Earnhardt
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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
Mary Gaitskill
FatherSchoolWarParentsCollege
Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
Johnny Ramone
FatherTwoHeroesWereJohn Wayne
Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
Jidenna
FatherMusicHistoryI AmMeLegacy
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
Brendan I. Koerner
FatherGovernmentAmericaAttention
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
Jeff Buckley
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I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
Peter Jackson
FatherWantAirportThroughKids
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi
FatherWomanI AmPoliticalSaint
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
Tom Brokaw
FatherDayHusbandCitizenAnchor
As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
Louis Theroux
FatherChildrenI AmSeeingChoice
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
Chris Hayes
FatherMotherCommunityTeacherCome
Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
Meghan Trainor
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