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«My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'»
«The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
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boat, Christmas, Christmas Day, extraordinary, How to swim, miles, my father, offshore, out in, ritual, sack, sacked, swim, Take Me, The Hard
«My father was often angry when I was most like him.»
«My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.»
«What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?....What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?»
«My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
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bees, birds, liar, my father, steady, The Birds, twenty, twenty one, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.»
«My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.»
«My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
crack, cracking, crack up, deny, Father, fathering, in jokes, joked, jokes, love story, my father, read, stories, take a joke, taught, Teach, Telling Stories, tells a story
«My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
Father of, my father, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, The Father
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