Sam Brownback Quotes
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
Sam Brownback
Quotes to Explore
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
Ram Charan
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
Larry the Cable Guy
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
Zach Cregger
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
Dan Stevens
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B. King
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
Tamron Hall
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
Oliver North
