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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

~Avicii

Topics: Brothers Charles Father First Got Grew Guess Kiss Listening Lot Me Music Ray Ray Charles Rock Taste Thanks Then Up Whatnot Where

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A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Between Brother Choose Family Father Her Herself Honor Just Legs Lifestyle Man Muslim Own Property She Western Woman

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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Away Back Believing Child Choices Even Father Go Had His His Way Individuals Make Me Own Passed Respect Still Taken Thinking Way You Your

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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Am English Father Grateful Kenya Learned Me Moved School Sending Somalia Where I Am

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When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She was average size, with long thin fingers and a random assortment of toes. Her eyes were close set, and she had her father's hooked nose. It looked better on him.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Average Baby Beautiful Better Blankets Born Close Daughter Eyes Father Fingers First God Had Hands Held Her Him His Hooked Husband Long Looked Nose Random Said Set She Size Thin Toes Were

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Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Basic Before Being Consider Do-It-Yourself Even Failure Father Feminist Generally Growing Growing Up Had Hammer Hand He His Jewish Jews Knew Manage Married More Needed Only Owned Pair Real Shoe Something Thought Tool Tools Up Used

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I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Again Born Came Canadian Father Fight Holocaust Homeland Israel Jewish Large Large Part Men Men And Women Motive Never Parents Part Pioneers Reaction Slogan Wave Who Women Young Young Men I Was Born

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My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Again Father Happening Hasten Holocaust Israel Keeps Might Sure Worry

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I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.

~Azim Premji

Topics: After Attack Company Died Father He Heart Inherited Just Old Unexpectedly Very Years

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I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.

~Azim Premji

Topics: Before Call Choice Company Day Day One Degree Electrical Engineering Father Feet First Go Got Grieve Had Home Left Mother No Choice No Time Quarters Receiving Right Stanford Studying Telephone Then Time Two Undergraduate University

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