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The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

~Amar Bose

Topics: Bad Come Dark Father Food Mother Never Occasionally Person Prejudice Restaurant Served Sit States Time Try United United States White Would

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My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

~Amar'E Stoudemire

Topics: Always Basketball Bike Board Christmas Every Father Give Give Me Me Skate Used Wanted Year

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I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

~Amber Heard

Topics: Daddy Father Girl Raised I Was Raised

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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

~Amber Tamblyn

Topics: About Actor Age Even Father Film Generation Know Really Sad Which

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Doubt is the father of invention.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Doubt Father Invention

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My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Aspect Because Been Came Carolina Come Family Father First First Name His Long Long Time Name See South South Carolina Time You

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My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

~Amish Tripathi

Topics: Also Dedicated Family Father Grandfather Great Hindu Home Lord Mathematics Taught Temple University

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In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.

~Amish Tripathi

Topics: After Bad Bad People Because Blame Blast Book Cause College Convinced Disillusioned Early Evils Faith Father Few First Me Mumbai People Religion Restored Riots Root Started Thinking While Writing

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My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

~Amitabh Bachchan

Topics: Also Because Country English English Literature Father Giant Harvard He Hindi Literary Literature Most Poet Prominent Quite Taught Unique Universities University Which Writes

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I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

~Amitabh Bachchan

Topics: Father Her Love Now Play Romance

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