#fat

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#always #approve #become #did #father

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#faults #forefathers #freedom #given #loved

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#guitar #i #influential #more #play

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#eater #fat #going #i #like

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american #board #decision #formed #grandfather

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. ↗

— Rand Paul

#become #children #doctors #grandfather #his

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#confused #dad #disposition #father #good-natured