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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

~Desmond Llewelyn

Topics: Able Almost Anybody Australia Back Bin Cricket Died England Father Game Him Put Sit Time Watch You

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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

~Desmond Morris

Topics: Become Call Child-Like Father Holy How Matter Mother Mother And Father Old Put Still Them Trust

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I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

~Dev Hynes

Topics: Alive Better Definitely Eaten Father Father Figure Feel Figure Freer Get Here Huge Know Like Lot Me More New New York Over People Presence Something Watching Work York I Feel

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My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Afternoon Apartment Attributed Basement Centers Day Father He Heat Left Me Memory Most Mother Mounting Oblivious Our Short Vivid Warm Which

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The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Agreed Before Birthday Club Father Firm Happened Him Invited Jazz Join July Law Law Firm Law School Local Me Playing School Since Spent Summer Third Turned Washington Worked Year

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My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

~Devin Druid

Topics: Both Father Father Figure Figure Incredible Just Life Mom Mother Mother And Father My Life She

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I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

~Devon Aoki

Topics: Been Dad Dependent Fact Family Father Financially Know Like Matter Old People Since Some Something Something People Think Understand Way Years I Think

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What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.

~Dexter Scott King

Topics: Because Did Doing Everybody Father Follow He Here His Law Lose Misses Property Protect Protected Reads Same Same Thing Thing Tradition Way You

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One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

~Dhani Harrison

Topics: Asked Betrayed Cool Father Feel How Interviewer Me Really Very You Your

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I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

~Dhani Harrison

Topics: After Anyone Away Cathartic Continue Day Emotional Empty Every Every Day Father Healing Just Kind Natural Passed Seemed Studio Time Very Would

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