My Father Quotes
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.
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A further step is to observe the interplay between your thoughts and your physical sensations. How are particular thoughts registered in your body? (Do thoughts like “My father loves me” or “my girlfriend dumped me” produce different sensations?) Becoming aware of how your body organizes particular emotions or memories opens up the possibility of releasing sensations and impulses you once blocked in order to survive.
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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
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What a charming companion, what a delightful parent, what a courteous and engaging friend my Father would have been, and would pre-eminently have been to me, if it had not been for this stringent piety which ruined it all.
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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
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It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
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My father nodded. Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem--for you anyway--is that you're in love with him.
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The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.
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My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.
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A few months ago, I would have thrown this book down in disgust and walked away—maybe even returned home, where the only books I knew reminded me of my father. But now… My fingers wrapped around the spine of the book. Now I was willing to try anything.
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My father was not a musical man.
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I've never been desperate to please my father.
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My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
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Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.
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My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
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I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
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Maybe the problem between me and my father was that we were both the same.
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My father was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
