Jim Valvano Quotes
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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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.
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I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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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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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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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.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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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!
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.
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Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
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I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
