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As a father and a provider, no stone goes unturned.
Ian Ziering
Father
Unturned
Provider
Goes
Stone
I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
Ice Cube
Time
Father
Angeles
House
Still
Los
Los Angeles
South
Up
Same
Grew
Central
Lives
Actually
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
Ice T
Family
Father
Virginia
Brother
He
Talked
Dude
Came
Lot
Quiet
Blue-Collar
Who
Philadelphia
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
Ice T
Mother
Father
Live
Seventh
Angeles
Passed
Los
Los Angeles
Aunt
Shipped
Grade
Third
I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
Iman
Mother
Father
Parents
Country
Nothing
East
Somalia
Born
Africa
Which
Unheard
Poor
Started
When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
Iman
Me
Father
Girl
Prom
High
Date
Take
Students
Like
Cousin
Were
Paid
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman
Science
Political
Father
Follow
Studying
Footsteps
Political Science
Going
Adamant
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
Love
Me
You
Father
Girl
Back
Never
Always
Material
Been
Love You
Anything
Cannot
To Love
Dad
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Immanuel Velikovsky
Garden
Memory
Mother
Father
Group
Believe
Carried
Slowly
Seems
Small
Toward
Arm
House
Am
Walking
Orchard
Them
Grown-Ups
Among
Earliest
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Imtiaz Ali
Me
Sometimes
Father
Gave
Jobs
Would
India
Him
Accompany
Did
Taste
Going
Irrigation
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
Indira Gandhi
Happy
Father
Parents
Out
See
Very
Jail
Them
Much
I don't think my father was my mentor.
Indira Gandhi
Father
Think
Mentor
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
Indra Nooyi
Positive
Wonderful
Human Being
Father
Whatever
Assume
Says
Absolutely
Him
Learned
Does
Always
Intent
Human
Anybody
Being
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
Life
God
Construction
Father
King
Society
Top
Hierarchical
Obedient
About
Freeing
Souls
Up
Human
Then
Creating
Slaves
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman
Great
Me
People
World
Mother
Father
Great Deal
Vital
Only
Importance
Because
Deal
Were
Revolt
Personal
Personal Level
Against
Themselves
Created
Meant
Certainly
Who
Many
Level
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
Ingrid Betancourt
Light
Father
Voice
Like
Holy
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
Ingrid Betancourt
Life
Father
Made
My Life
Lost
Think
Everything
Liberation
Reconstruction
About
Know
Were
Years
Died
Children
After
Anything
Decisions
Mean
Right
Right Decisions
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Ira Levin
Work
Good
Relationship
Conflict
Father
Think
Finally
Out
Good Relationship
Had
Lot
Up
Very
Did
Work Out
Many
Works
Rough
Growing
Growing Up
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
History
Father
King
Three
Before
Action
Think
Liberties
Member
Civil
Memphis
Civil Liberties
Born
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Something
Had
Years
Blood
Up
American
Grew
Union
Luther
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
Ira Sachs
Time
Father
Three
Sleepy
Sight
Out
Mining
City
Restaurants
Only
Park
Joint
Town
Hippie
Condo
Behind
Moved
Little
Coal
Utah
Lived
Lumber
Two
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld
Son
Father
Think
Way
Having
Somewhat
Had
He
Disappointed
Nearest
Thing
My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
Irina Shayk
Dark
Sometimes
Father
He
Look
Because
Brazilian
Skinned
Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
Irving Stone
Life
Strange
Women
Fear
Mother
Father
Seen
Same Thing
Painting
Spent
Must
Hated
About
Had
He
His
Same
Want
Story
Them
Much
Deep
Thing
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
Isaac of Nineveh
God
Humanity
World
Word
Father
Humility
Back
Appropriate
Had
Putting
Himself
Gentleness
Been
His
Did
Order
Body
Using
Zeal
Why
Right
Bring
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
Isabel Allende
Life
Memory
Father
Three
My Life
First
Later
Significant
No Memory
Stepfather
Most
House
Him
Were
Male
Years
Left
Childhood
Grandfather
Figures
Lived
Whose
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini
Man
Mother
Father
Gave
David
David Lynch
Scholarship
Study
Loved
Rome
Elephant
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