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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orpha...
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BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ...
BLAKE BAILEY My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi...
BUCK O'NEIL
I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family l... TESS GERRITSEN
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN I just read a couple of [Raptors coach] Sam Mitchell quotes that sounded like he was going to be the...
SCOTT SKILES
Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him o... RICHARD WIDMARK
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE I've met him. He was here a couple of weeks ago; I met him then. I know his name well.
ANDY HORNE
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh... JOAN COLLINS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ... BOB DYLAN I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not ... SHAILENE WOODLEY
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS I was an original Aberdeen kid, ... My father came here in 1937. I left in 1950, moved to New York, ...
DANIEL CHANDLER He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ...
RONAN FARROW My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary wal...
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa i... GAIL KELLY
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both... FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world,... GEORGE TAKEI [Maine] had three pitches he was throwing that he looked like he had confidence to throw in any coun...
JOHN OLERUD
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... LINCOLN STEFFENS
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY He sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building...
AHMED RAHMAN He sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building...
AHMED ABDEL RAHMAN
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, De...
GIANCARLO ESPOSITO
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... BRUNO MARS
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encom...
JASON ROBERT BROWN One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century “did not learn that the South had ...
PAUL D. ESCOTT My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in ...
RICHARD GOUGH
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo...
PATSY KENSIT The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to...
AMIRI BARAKA It's not perfect. But George Mitchell is credible. He should do a good job.
FAY VINCENT My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to ...
DOMINIC CHIANESE My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My father-in-law had an anvil and he gave it to me. I noticed it had a name on it. I thought that wa...
CORKY HELMS
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol.
JOE SCHWARZER Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,
JOE SCHWARZER Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My atti...
NAS
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orpha... GREGORY CORSO
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by fo... CHELLIE PINGREE My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o...
NORMAN LLOYD My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to ... SUFJAN STEVENS [The couple divorced, the captain agreed to divorce his first wife, and then he and Betty remarried ...
MICHAEL BUERK
But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN Darrel's been very good at getting shots in transition. When he gets it on an outlet pass, he is so ...
JOHN BRADY In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I menti...
GARY DAVID GOLDBERG
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the... ZUBIN MEHTA When I went to the Maine State Lottery Commission as part of my investigation, they knew Mr. Dyer by...
DETECTIVE MICHAEL MCFADDEN
There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da...
ARI MILLEN
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow... SACHIN TENDULKAR My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King Georg...
ALEXANDER CHEE My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o...
AARON KLUG My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG A couple of times we still gave him gifts and he said thanks, but this year we finally told him we w...
LARRY GOETHE
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York Un... TALIB KWELI
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that som... HUEY NEWTON I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud...
EDMUNDO BOUDON My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARA
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. PARIS JACKSON I went up a couple of days before he got in, and I said, 'My baby is bored,' so they gave him work t...
MARGARET COX My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayra...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my l...
JES DORY He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I ...
JUDY HOLLIDAY He put all the money from the Fleet deal in the foundation with the vision that he was going to play...
FERNANDO CUZA I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... DON RICKLES
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... CHRISTIAN BALE I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr... 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to. 
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Cathol... 
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to... 
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak... 
I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic. 
My son's a West Point cadet. 
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I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set u... 
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with resp... 
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn... 
I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake. 
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w... 
My dear, I don't give a damn. 
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you... 
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '... 
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo... 
We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som... 
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's ... 
One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &... 
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue ey... 
Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call th... 
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the s... 
Look here, Mrs. Bradley," he said. "I feel a pretty frightful bounder telling you all this about the... 
What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how... 
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d... 
A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. 
History is made in the class struggle and not in bed. 
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. 
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. 
Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopp... 