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		I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tyler Posey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Rhett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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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		When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris DeWolfe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harrison Ford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joey Fatone
			
			
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		When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Rhett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vanessa Bayer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Lambert
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andy Andrews
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Garth Brooks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Greene
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fiona Apple
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would say growing up in Nashville has been a huge influence in my music. Growing up with my dad being a 2-time Grammy-winner, BMI songwriter of the year for five consecutive years in a row, and having the legacy he has is definitely a huge influence, too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chord Overstreet
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. K. Simmons
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kacy Catanzaro