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I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.
Milos Raonic
Try
Father
Tennis
Know
House
Courts
Were
Hockey
Really
Who
Why
Near
Street
Started
Suggested
Playing
My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
You
People
Law
Father
Relatives
Said
Always
Least
Did
Going
Anything
Breaking
Rack
Your
Help
Help People
Who
Whole
My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I couldn't do science. I was hopeless at chemistry.
Miriam Margolyes
Science
Doctor
Father
Thought
Hopeless
Chemistry
Too
Maths
Going
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Miroslav Vitous
Me
Knowledge
You
School
Father
Joke
Worse
Some
Give
Give Me
Student
Come
Because
Pass
Coming
His
Off
Very
Than
Trying
Tuition
Upsetting
Break
Really
Pays
Serious
Street
Treated
Basically
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.
Misha Glenny
Work
Me
Father
Myth
Distinguish
Russian
Writer
Name
Calling
Balkans
Am
His
Michael
Wanted
Created
Translator
Connections
Actually
British
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Missy Elliott
Home
Me
Father
Living
Record
About
Struggles
Through
Close
I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
Missy Elliott
Strong
Mother
Father
Took
Taking
She
Got
Very
After
I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.
Missy Elliott
Me
People
Mother
Father
Bit
About
More
Never
Like
Talk
Talked
Heard
Personal
Being
Anything
Little
Little Bit
Brings
My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
Mitch Albom
Emotions
Father
Feelings
Own
About
My Own
Talk
Lot
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
Mitch Kapor
Good
School
Father
Enough
Back
Way
High
High School
Computers
Had
He
Well
Math
Lot
Very
Bunch
Going
Fortunate
Help
Fascinated
Exposure
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
Mitski
Music
World
Father
Think
Folk
Folk Music
Obsessed
Countless
Performed
Around
Artists
Influences
Biggest
Them
Who
It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.
Mo Farah
You
Father
Way
Kids
React
Gets
Your
Imagine
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
Mo Rocca
Christmas
Father
Tree
Our
Hated
See
He
Till
Go
Up
Loved
Dad
March
Kept
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Me
You
Father
Principles
Taught
Stand
Your
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.
Molly Ivins
Life
Son
Father
Single
Owes
Else
Admit
Entire
About
Entire Life
Oblige
Fact
Remained
He
Head
Head Start
Named
Most
Him
Himself
Because
George
His
George W
George W. Bush
Get
Just
Being
Anyone
Anyone Else
Bush
Reason
Start
If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.
Mona Simpson
Time
Home
Needs
Conflict
Mother
Father
Some
Someone
Cases
Nanny
Material
Child
Office
Sitting
Manifestation
Much
Chair
Her
How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
Moon Unit Zappa
Strange
Women
Father
Shoes
Clothes
Incredible
Wearing
Looks
How
Your
Pair
Platform
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
Morag Joss
Attitude
Man
Director
Remember
Father
Took
Nursing
Jobs
See
About
Mental
Mental Illness
Hospital
Student
Cheerful
Robust
Conditions
Scotland
Get
Did
Psychiatrist
Conversations
Such Things
Illness
Medical
Things
Vacation
Assistant
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.
Mother Angelica
Death
Knowledge
Father
Will
Criticism
Cowardice
Destitute
Would
Never
He
Feel
Unto
Accepting
His
Accomplishing
Poor
Apostles
Full
Loyal
Even
Deserted
Jesus
Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.
Mother Angelica
Love
Father
Example
Giving
Adapting
Changed
Way
Temperament
He
Like
Himself
Always
His
Praying
Conduct
Did
Loved
Them
Holy
Acting
Apostles
Jesus
Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.
Mother Angelica
Me
Matter
Father
Will
Difficult
He
How
His
Accomplish
Did
Holy
Means
Jesus
I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take me for a walk and then always dropped me to school. I was very disciplined, as my father inculcated those values in me. Now that my father is no more, I understand that you should not take your parents for granted.
Mouni Roy
Me
You
Remember
School
Walk
Father
Values
Parents
Inculcated
Those
More
Take
He
Dropped
Study
Also
Make
Disciplined
Understand
Always
How
Still
Wake
Up
Very
Then
Should
Your
Used
Granted
Now
My last conversation with my father was an argument we'd had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I'd lost him within seven hours. I still regret the last conversation with him.
Mouni Roy
Conversation
Regret
Father
Argument
Lost
Seven
Had
Hours
Know
Him
Within
Still
Came
His
Last
I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
Mr. T
Old
Father
Years
Baptized
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.
Mr. T
Life
Beautiful
Buy
You
Strong
Mother
Old
Care
Father
My Life
Big
Living
Side
Nine
Seven
Minister
Brothers
Take
Had
Take Care
Days
House
Years
South
Chicago
South Side
Mama
Sisters
Going
Wanted
Scrub
Used
Ever
Floors
Four
I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.
Mr. T
God
Father
About
Moses
Like
Talk
Disciples
Because
Preacher
Trained
Being
Wanted
Apostles
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