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		I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lil Rel Howery
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ana Ortiz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leo Varadkar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mariella Frostrup
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Makepeace Thackeray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kelly Sue DeConnick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Gore
			
			
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		I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buddy Valastro
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the church. So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leah Remini
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Lanois
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane Yolen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dominik Garcia-Lorido
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lesley Manville
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emmanuelle Seigner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joan Rivers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed itself. But my problem is, as a parent, there's this area of film that my daughters want to see. They're not my kind of films, I don't want to go see them, but I really want to know whether my daughters can see them or not. The morality of what the ratings board is doing now escapes me. I don't get it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William H. Macy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama