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		I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matt Reeves
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. G. Wodehouse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brigitte Michael Sumner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John James Audubon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Rockefeller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margaret D. Nadauld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Trump, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Sis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joel Osteen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dionne Warwick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Wright
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chung Mong-joon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marian Wright Edelman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexandre Dumas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Camus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Bacon