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  • I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It was great to be around [Tony Walters] - he was like a father figure to me especially in my athletic background. That is a person I will never forget and share in all of my victories since I left there until I am done.

    Source: www.boxinginsider.com
  • I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

    Strong   Father   Men  
  • The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.

  • Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."

    Strong   Father   Keys  
  • I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

    Basketball   Dad   Father  
  • In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

  • I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

    Father   Want   Blame  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  • Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

    Family   Father   Mama  
    Song: New Day
  • Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

  • The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

    Father   World   Figures  
  • It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

    "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.
  • My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

    Father   School   One Day  
    "Singer-songwriter-activist Wyclef Jean". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last years and King Lear is such an accurate portrayal of a father figure suffering from dementia - the play was almost intolerable for me.

    Father   Suffering   Done  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

    God   Father   Reality  
  • I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.

    Beautiful   Girl   Father  
    "NCIS' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.tvguide.com. December 4, 2007.
  • [Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

    Brother   Father   Way  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

  • George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.

    Sex   Father   Hands  
  • My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

    Dad   Father   Champion  
    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.
  • I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

    Father   Soul   Energy  
    "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.
  • It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

    Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of being in a long-lasting relationship? Psh, I couldn't last more than six months with somebody, let alone have a father figure around for a kid. I mean, if I could give a kid a father figure, that would be amazing.

    Running   Father   Mean  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

  • How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

  • I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

    Sports   Father   Knowing  
  • When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

    Powerful   Father   Guy  
  • As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

    Father   Men   Decision  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
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