“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”
— Dean Norris
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“Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.”
— Lynn Johnston
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“I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.”
— Jennifer Ellison
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“Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.”
— William Hurt
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“I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.”
— Jason Mraz
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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
— Kent Nerburn
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“My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.”
— Lianne La Havas
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“I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.”
— Parker Stevenson
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“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
— Beau Bridges
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“As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.”
— Phil Crane
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