Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
Deirdre O'Kane
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
Tasha Smith
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
Faye Dunaway
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
Cara Buono
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Wade Boggs
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
Mahesh Babu
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
Larry Elder
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
Saint Basil
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
Camila Alves
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
Rachel Joyce
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I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.
Orhan Pamuk
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I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Payne Stewart
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I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
Jack Roy
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There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
Malcolm Lowry
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
Adam Davidson
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You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
Deirdre O'Kane
