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My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
Max Weinberg
Good
People
Law
Father
Thought
Lawyer
Strip
Charge
Something
Joints
Sacred
Allowed
He
Like
Very
Which
Should
Meant
Help
Help People
Bars
Why
Play
I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.
Max von Sydow
Time
Father
Desperately
Type
Tries
Perfect
Been
Succeed
Who
I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I'd be like, 'Hey Dad, I'm going to McDonald's with my friends,' and he'd just whip out a hundred: 'Here, go, have fun.'
Maz Jobrani
Have Fun
Father
Hundred
Hundreds
Hey
Say
Out
Could
He
Generosity
Like
Beyond
Always
Go
His
Off
Friends
Going
Just
Anything
McDonald
Breaking
Whip
Reason
Fun
Dad
Ever
Awe
Here
Imagine
My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.
Maz Jobrani
Business
Culture
Father
Parents
Immigrant
Dreaming
About
Taking
Emphasis
Over
Come
Comedian
Well
Doing
Line
Falling
Iranian
Lot
American
Being
Places
Your
Actor
Thing
I was at UC Berkeley as an undergrad when my father lost a lot of money in real estate investments in Northern California. He wanted a change of pace, so in the early '90s, my family moved to L.A., right in the middle of Tehrangeles. It was a culture shock for me.
Maz Jobrani
Family
Me
Change
Culture
Money
Real Estate
Father
Lost
Berkeley
He
Investments
California
Real
Lot
Shock
Northern
Northern California
Moved
Middle
Wanted
Estate
Pace
Right
Early
My father loves Las Vegas, and he loves to play craps. Growing up, I'd find old Caesars Palace chips in his pocket that he forgot to cash out.
Meghan McCain
Old
Father
Out
Find
Pocket
Cash
Vegas
He
His
Up
Forgot
Loves
Chips
Growing
Growing Up
Palace
Play
Las Vegas
I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.
Meghan McCain
Work
Day
Every Day
World
Try
Father
Every
Thinking
Out
About
He
Put
Come
Still
Done
Going
Rhetoric
Really
Here
My father is the sun in my universe.
Meghan McCain
Father
Universe
Sun
I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.
Meghan McCain
Me
Together
Father
Beginning
Corrected
All Things
He
Shared
Supported
Comforted
His
Years
Encouraged
End
Taught
Things
Raised
When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and I both have inherited our rebellious personalities from Nana. She has always lived her life on her own terms, something that was once considered quite scandalous, given the times she grew up in.
Meghan McCain
Life
Me
People
Father
Half
Own
Our
Once
Considered
Tell
Scandalous
Must
Gene
Something
Given
Only
Both
Terms
She
Always
Up
Times
Get
Maverick
Quite
Grew
Personalities
Inherited
Rebellious
Lived
Her
Right
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
Meghan Trainor
Me
You
Father
Jazz
Every
Musician
About
Write
Songwriter
He
Since
Well
Genre
Instruments
Learn
Doing
Up
Any
Taught
Wanted
Anything
Them
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Mufti sahab, apart from being my father, was one of the tallest leaders of the state and the country.
Mehbooba Mufti
Father
Country
State
Leaders
Tallest
Being
Apart
I'm not as large hearted as my father.
Mehbooba Mufti
Father
Hearted
Large
In fact, when I fought the 1996 election, being Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter, it has its own plus and minus, so I told my father, 'please don't come for campaigning with me'.
Mehbooba Mufti
Me
Election
Father
Daughter
Own
Please
Minus
Plus
Fact
Come
Campaigning
Being
In Fact
Fought
People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.
Mehbooba Mufti
Me
Woman
People
Amazing
Father
Made
High
Fact
Never
Nobody
Looked
Am
Very
Hold
Esteem
Aware
My father worked for more than four decades in politics, in Indian democracy, and it took us 20 years to build a house for ourselves.
Mehbooba Mufti
Politics
Democracy
Father
Build
Took
Ourselves
Indian
More
House
Years
Than
Decades
Us
Worked
Four
I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
Mehmet Oz
Best
Myself
Good
Doctor
Better
Father
Husband
Think
Worst
Give
Am
Than
Grade
Then
Next
My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.
Mel Giedroyc
Family
History
Engineer
Father
Before
Engineering
Every
Hong Kong
Back
Spent
Civil
Minute
Born
He
Pole
Himself
Read
Although
Kong
Aeroplanes
His
Moved
Where
Spare
Then
Worked
Researching
Descent
Designed
University
My father and brothers were coal miners.
Merle Travis
Father
Miners
Brothers
Were
Coal
Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.
Merrill Markoe
You
Mother
Father
Cute
Cold
Please
Distant
Kid
Kind
Parent
Guy
Could
Never
Hot
Reminds
Beware
Along
Were
Left
Get
Your
Who
Whom
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Love
Music
Time
Me
Eyes
Listening
Father
First
Big
Jazz
Sax
John
John Coltrane
Record
Brown
Had
Coltrane
He
Tenor
Come
Around
Clifford
Sound
Caught
Lot
Up
Bands
Improvisational
Where
Grew
Really
Illinois
Ear
Played
Player
One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.
Method Man
Mother
Father
Girl
Mother And Father
Strips
Out
Freaky
Red
Name
Know
She
Call
Still
Miami
Who
Stands
Lives
Her
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
Mia Farrow
Me
Writing
Father
Writer
Always
Autobiography
Loved
Process
Interesting
Should
Found
I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.
Mia Goth
Father
Canadian
My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.
Michael Ashcroft
War
Birthday
Father
Made
Before
Month
Promoted
Colonial
February
Recovery
Had
He
His
Survived
Officer
Died
Full
Fortunate
Captain
Wartime
Injuries
Eventually
Satisfying
Servicemen
Career
I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.
Michael Beasley
Life
You
Game
Father
First
Birthdays
Kids
Only
Part
Missed
Missing
Talk
Friend
The Only Thing
China
Miles
Dad
Away
Play
Play Basketball
Thing
Million
Basketball
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