Michael Jackson Quotes

I just wish I could understand my father.

Michael Jackson

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• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

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• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

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• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

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• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
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• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

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• Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

  

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• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

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• I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.

  

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• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
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• I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• Becoming a father has changed everything. He Thiago comes first then everything else. It has also changed the way I see a match. Before if I lost or did something wrong I didn't talk to anyone for three or four days, until it passed. Now, I come home after a game, I see my son and everything is alright.

  

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• Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

  

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• Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

  

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• Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
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• I just wish I could understand my father.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Father
  • Understand