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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off. – Robert Moog

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business. – Marcy Kaptur

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. – Haley Joel Osment

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. – James Wood

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young. – Kim Wilde

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit. – Barbara Castle

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station. – Mireille Enos

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career. – Benjamin Walker

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier. – Jason Gann

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything. – Shane MacGowan

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school. – Mia Love

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family. – Ricky Martin

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. – John L. Phillips

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England. – Lily Allen

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. – Candace Parker

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit. – Candace Parker

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug. – Isabel Lucas

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. – Ryan Giggs