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My father was against nepotism.
Naveen Patnaik
Father
Nepotism
Against
My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.
Naveen Patnaik
Work
Politics
Father
Took
Carry
Plunge
Because
His
Did
Wanted
Us
Groom
My father used to say that you haven't learnt anything about politics unless you've been out of power for at least 10 years. That's why I am certain I am here to stay.
Naveen Patnaik
Politics
You
Father
Power
Unless
Say
Out
Stay
About
Learnt
Am
Least
Been
Years
Anything
Certain
Used
Why
Here
I was born in Cochin August 27, 1980. Since my father is in the Navy, he was often transferred to other cities. When I was nine years old, we moved on to New Delhi.
Neha Dhupia
Old
Father
Other
Nine
Cities
Born
Delhi
He
Since
New
August
Years
Often
Moved
Moved On
Transferred
Navy
I have seen and heard a 21-gun salute as my father is in the Navy, but that doesn't mean I don't jump if a gun is fired in my face!
Neha Dhupia
Father
Gun
Face
Seen
Fired
Heard
Jump
Salute
Mean
Navy
My first trip to China was in 1975 when my father was the 'bicycling ambassador' representing the U.S. in Beijing. This was a time towards the end of the Cultural Revolution where there were very few personal liberties, China was pretty much closed off to the West.
Neil Bush
Time
Father
First
Revolution
Closed
Few
Liberties
Pretty
Trip
Towards
Were
West
Cultural
Ambassador
Off
End
Very
Personal
Representing
Beijing
Where
China
Much
Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.
Neil Bush
Life
Amazing
Father
Important
Throughout
Shaping
Towards
Policy
Important Roles
Amazing Life
His
Roles
China
Played
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right thing to do for her community. The example of his parents established my father's belief that every human has the capacity to serve their fellow man.
Neil Bush
War
Man
World
Father
Example
Long
Parents
Community
Every
Right Thing
Cross
Red
Hours
Fellow
Fellow Man
Because
His
Walker
Human
Established
The Right Thing
Dorothy
Bush
Capacity
Worked
Grandmother
Hard
Belief
Serve
Her
Right
Thing
World War
World War II
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
Neil Patrick Harris
Work
Great
Marriage
Conflict
Father
Thought
Young
Side
Way
Intrigued
Marriage Work
Would
Would-Be
Physical
Seemed
Guy
Never
Like
Great Way
Precise
Done
Represent
Just
Movie
Interested
Really
Technical
Things
Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'
Neil Sedaka
Happy
Better
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Think
Sold
Mink
About
Records
Bought
Between
She
Because
Said
Always
Beethoven
Very
Shock
Than
Stole
Million
Playing
The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
Nell Newman
Food
Problem
Worth
Mother
Father
Made
Organic
Think
Nut
Seventies
Eating
Could
He
Yeast
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Organic Food
Convincing
Gravy
Loaf
When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.
Nell Scovell
Eyes
Father
Three
Married
Trick
Would
Wound
Girly
Only
Cruel
He
Genetics
Couple
Eric
His
Fishy
Trump
Up
Dominate
Donald
Donald Trump
Blue
Blue Eyes
Blue-Eyed
Children
Youngest
Figured
Her
Played
I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.
Nelsan Ellis
Mother
Father
Except
Like
Look
Anything
Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson Mandela
Life
Me
Constitution
Strong
Father
Birth
Abide
Bestowed
Only
Name
House
The Only Thing
Apart
Connection
Thing
Royal
I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
Nelson Peltz
Work
Food
Father
Power
Kid
Restaurants
Since
Understood
Selling
Started
I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.
Nelson Piquet
Car
Father
Looking
Driving
Looking Forward
Another
Am
Really
Show
Forward
I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.
Newt Gingrich
Politics
Business
Army
Father
Active
Took
Battlefield
Self-Government
Got
Us
Who
Serving
My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.
Neymar
Family
Care
Father
Side
Finances
Has-Been
He
Takes
Since
Been
Little
Things
I always make my decisions together with my family, my father. Of course, I hear the advice of everyone who wishes me well, but the final decision is always mine, with my family.
Neymar
Family
Me
Together
Decision
Father
Advice
Final
Everyone
Mine
Wishes
Well
Make
Course
Always
Hear
Decisions
Who
From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
War
Time
Army
Cooking
Mother
Old
Father
Side
Our
Spent
Our Time
Joined
Were
Years
Middle
Much
Fought
Nigeria
My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.
Nicholas Gonzalez
Surgeon
Father
Brother
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
Nicholas Kristof
Marriage
Father
Wife
Citizen
Country
States
Papers
Unnecessary
Fraud
Eastern
Fraudulent
Eastern Europe
Able
He
Bought
Sponsored
Come
Another
Making
American
American Citizen
Refugee
Chinese
Grandfather
Europe
Preparing
United
United States
Route
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
Nicholas Stern
You
Change
Generation
Father
Fighting
Our
Crisis
Ours
Solution
Threat
See
Obvious
Because
Climate
Climate Change
Hands
Much
Fascism
Harder
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
Nick Cannon
Me
Age
Father
Young
Intrigued
Lied
Never
Had
He
Knew
Because
Answered
Question
Lot
Person
Young Age
Who
Dad
Things
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
Nick Carter
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Fighting
Sides
Kids
Would
Would-Be
Thrown
Between
Middle
Choose
Ton
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
Nick Flynn
Great
Writing
Mother
Father
Met
Doubt
No Doubt
About
Directly
Writer
Had
He
Part
Delusion
Identified
Identifying
She
Him
Himself
Always
Left
Greatness
Very
Artist
Being
Novel
Why
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