Actually, complicated would be an understatement, but my father was just that: a highly complicated man.
The driver got in the car but my father didn't take the wave seriously and was caught up in it.
"I wanted to be in fashion, but my father told me I'd never make any money at it, " says McQueen.
We were all celebrating, but my father was cautiously happy - that was the kind of person that he was.
My young sister was crying, but my father appeared completely calm, and gave orders for the valet to bring the police tea.
Mr. Sullivan owned my mother and her children, but my father was owned by Mr. John Rector, whose place was adjacent to ours.
He must have thought that my parents would be impressed by the name Tokyo Musashino Music College, but my father's unexpected reply rendered him speechless.
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"My mother wanted to leave, " he later recalled, "but my father paradoxically still had faith in Marshal Petain" -- then the ruler of Vichy France, the part unoccupied by Nazi forces.
They're the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
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And today, the day after the election, I am going to ride to the cemetery so that if asked, I can vouch for the fact that the world is still spinning but my father lies at peace.
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Well, then came a development that could have been foreseen and probably was, but not by my father.
Yes, indeed. (Applause.) But I watched my father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago -- (applause) -- we've got a lot of Chicagoans -- but I watched my father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I watched my father -- (applause) -- we've got some South Siders here, some Chicagoans -- but I watched my father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
"I know he's my father but he's annoying me, " Bernard stated to the match referee.
He was a gentle but cautious fellow, my father, with a rock-solid faith.
But I watched my own father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
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"I know he's my father but he's annoying me, " Bernard, who was ranked as high as world no. 27 last year, stated to the match referee.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago -- (applause) -- a lot of South Siders, a lot of Chicagoans -- Chi-town, yes -- but I watched my own father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
And I knew that every time the song played that my grandpa was looking down and thanking me for not the gift that I had given to my fans, but the gift that I had given to my father by having Clarence on that record.
Growing up in North Carolina and Alabama, I occasionally went quail hunting with my father, but I was always more of a fisherman.
Only a handful of people know this about me, but five years ago, my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. This is a fatal disease that literally eats away at a person's muscles until they cannot walk, talk or even breathe.
Behind me, the door to the main building opened and shut, and I kept my back to whoever was coming out, hoping to pass unobserved, but the invader of my private romance was Father James, another recipient of my unguarded affection, and he had seen me.
Not what my father did, but my perception and emotion were what was important?
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But I do know this: My father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago.
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My father stayed, but he managed to get out in November the same year.
But the most unexpected financial lesson my father taught me came after he passed away.
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"You don't know that, "my father said, but not because he wasn't himself steamed up by Bengelsdorf 's behavior.
"I don't speak to my father very often but he has been telling me what he has read in the papers as well, " Barrett told BBC Radio Manchester.
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