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My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.
Bonnie Hammer
Mom
Business
Age
World
Mother
Healthy
Own
Pen
Dream
Brooklyn
Russia
Never
He
Himself
Around
Leaving
Came
His
Legacy
Graduated
Taught
Decent
Story
Little
Created
Full-Time
Mom And Dad
Union
Fully
Company
Dad
Cooper
Now
Started
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
Bonnie Hunt
Wisdom
Time
Great
Man
His
Short
Short Time
Dad
Here
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Food
Mom
Winter
Free
Cold
Our
Kicked
Kids
Out
Stayed
Horse
Had
Cheap
Feed
House
She
Pigs
Cattle
Got
Beef
Cow
Chickens
Five
Heated
Wood
Order
Little
Them
Then
Us
Acres
Dad
Lived
Raised
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Bonnie Raitt
Time
Great
Family
Me
Appreciation
Natural
Song
Musical
Some
All-Time
Writers
Songs
Songwriter
Great Song
Sing
Greatest
Got
Came
Hammerstein
Greatest Writers
Up
Rodgers
Being
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Early
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
Boomer Esiason
Day
Me
Anxiety
Way
One Day
Kids
Out
Dream
Find
Outlive
He
Him
Himself
Goal
Should
Dad
Dads
Bring
I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.
Borns
Myself
Me
Animals
Young
Restaurant
Table
Magic
Magician
Crowd
He
Doing
Balloon
Italian
Lot
Up
Brand
Did
Just
While
Create
Really
Graphic
Helped
Shows
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Designer
My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, 'Put the kettle on,' to have that kind of attitude of, 'Well, I'm OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.'
Boy George
Attitude
God
Soul
Personality
Fly
Rest
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Say
OK
Definitely
Kind
Ability
Could
No-One
He
Put
Smash
Like
House
Well
Known
Sort
Got
His
Off
Up
Very
Handle
Then
Explosive
Dad
Now
Ever
Kettle
As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
Bozoma Saint John
Education
Future
Doctor
Engineer
Three
Parents
Lawyer
Higher Education
Those
Jobs
Would
Pretty
Tactical
Higher
Open
Idea
Go
Were
Options
Expected
American
Dad
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
Brad D. Smith
Kindness
Mistake
Our
Weakness
Never
Him
Learned
Years
Up
Ended
Being
Mayor
Worked
Lessons
Dad
Hometown
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over.
Brad D. Smith
Home
Me
Walk
Kid
Neighborhood
Kids
Would
Follow
Following
Rather
Lead
Had
No-One
He
Over
Moses
Call
Stick
Around
Said
Dogs
Coming
Than
Anyone
Video
Used
Dad
As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
Brad Feld
Me
Soul
Experience
Consequences
Teenager
About
My Soul
Had
Idea
Over
Deal
How
Years
Taught
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Dad
I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.
Brad Goreski
Love
Time
Good
Man
People
Wonderful
Good Person
Doubt
Relationships
Our
No Doubt
About
Similar
Struggles
He
Like
Also
Misunderstandings
Very
Person
Same
Same Time
Different
Different People
Many
Dad
My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.
Brad Paisley
Time
Fire
President
Our
Distance
Way
Several
Spent
Week
Inspiring
Lead
He
Volunteer
Days
House
Blew
Him
Within
Truly
Walking
Department
Any
Which
Whistle
Each
Dad
Each Week
Watch
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Brad Pitt
Life
Better
Opportunity
Father
Sense
Background
Give
Determined
More
Better Life
Never
Had
He
Make
Sure
Came
Were
Very
Than
Want
Wanted
Poor
Us
Shot
Fortunate
Dad
Things
Need
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
Time
Best
Good
Mom
Sister
Luck
Think
Honestly
Everybody
Everyone
Good Luck
Spending
Spending Time
Best Part
Brother
Brother And Sister
Charlie
About
Part
Like
Most
Because
Around
Working
Mom And Dad
Fun
Dad
Set
I can't dance to save my life, really - proper, proper dad dancing - but I was once at a wrap party for a show, and at the end of the night, they still hadn't played 'Dancing Queen'. So we extended the wrap party for 40 minutes and played 'Dancing Queen' 11 times in a row.
Bradley Walsh
Life
Queen
Dance
My Life
Party
Dancing
Once
Wrap
Minutes
Proper
Still
End
Times
Really
Show
Dad
Extended
Row
Played
Night
Save
I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek. I must have worn it out, I played with it so much.
Bradley Walsh
Me
Doctor
Thought
Worn
Kid
Out
Must
Bought
Fan
Biggest
Much
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
Played
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
Bradley Wiggins
Memories
First
Baby
Genes
Track
Were
Racer
Professional
Dad
My dad - I mean, we've had our ups and downs, you know, just like any father and son probably has. But, you know, we get along really good, honestly.
Brady Jandreau
Good
You
Son
Ups And Downs
Father
Father And Son
Honestly
Our
Had
Along
Like
Know
Get
Any
Just
Ups
Mean
Really
Dad
Downs
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
Branford Marsalis
Our
Musician
Guy
Fact
Drives
He
Taken
Truck
Like
House
Another
Were
Normal
Did
Just
Meat
Dad
I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.
Brea Grant
Crazy
You
School
First
OK
High
Bad
High School
Through
Colors
Had
He
Head
Like
Look
Shaved
Boy
Said
Permission
Did
Dye
Anyway
Gonna
Then
Asked
Fun
Dad
My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
Brenda Song
Time
Family
Cooking
Half
Big
Ate
Idea
House
Also
Up
Very
Thai
Loves
Cook
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.
Brendon Urie
You
Remember
Please
Hating
Lawn
Up
Get
Quite
Quite A While
While
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Right
Thing
'Superstar' Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching.
Bret Hart
Love
Submission
Tying
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Wrestler
More
Wrestling
Superstar
Knots
Up
Iron
Than
Taught
Graham
To Love
Used
Billy
Billy Graham
Dad
Watching
My dad was always genuine with the fans and said, 'You must appreciate every single one of them,' and I always did. I always tried to make time for every autograph or every picture. What's an autograph? It's the simplest thing in the world.
Bret Hart
Time
You
World
Fans
Picture
Single
Every
Must
Tried
Simplest
Make
Genuine
Said
Always
Did
Autograph
Them
Dad
Thing
Appreciate
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
Brett Dalton
Art
Family
College
Painting
Our
He
Glass
Stuff
Major
Along
Does
Lot
Crafts
Artist
Being
Theater
Stained
Grandfather
Painter
Paints
Dad
Butcher
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