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My father was born in 1885, and he was mildly racially biased.
Or take an Islamic father whose daughter has been raped, and he feels he's honor-bound to kill her.
Who here hasn't imitated their childhood hero in the playground, or mum or father?
HP: A few years ago, in order to make this video for my artwork, I shaved off all my hair so that I could grow it back as my father had it when he first emigrated from India to the U.K. in the 1960s.
So it's not just my father that I've imitated.
So every time I fail to become more like my father, I become more like myself.
To us Americans, it sounds horrible to think of abandoning or killing your own sick wife or husband or elderly mother or father, but what could those traditional societies do differently?
But my father wanted me to learn how to read and write.
If he does the best he can, he will have no further obsessions, probably no depression, but his affect will be dulled, he will never go back to surgery, he will never be the loving father that he was to his two children, his life will be changed.
Solly grew up tending to his father's cattle.
He was the father of our nation and we've got a road to walk in South Africa.
And finally, after four full hours of my lying and staring at it, the phone rang, and somehow I managed to pick it up, and it was my father, and I said, "I'm in serious trouble.
He wrote me a letter the Christmas after the surgery, and he said, "My father sent me two presents this year, First, a motorized CD rack from The Sharper Image that I didn't really need, but I knew he was giving it to me to celebrate the fact that I'm living on my own and have a job I seem to love.
My father's mantra was, "You can do it, yes you can can."
My father taught me how to walk when I was five years old by placing my heels on his feet and just walking.
Summer vacations often consisted of my father trying to heal me, so I drank deer's milk, I had hot cups on my back, I was dunked in the Dead Sea, and I remember the water burning my eyes and thinking, "It's working!
In 2003, my brother from another mother and father Dean Obeidallah and I started the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, now in its 10th year.
(Applause ends) It was the only time that my father ever saw me perform live, and I dedicate this talk to his memory.
And Adam Smith, of course, the father of modern economics actually said many, many years ago, the invisible hand, which is, "If you continue to operate in your own self-interest you will do the best good for society."
When her condition became hard to hide, Faiza's mother helped her flee her father and brothers.
And my father, who worked at night, would spend every afternoon with her, just to make sure she ate.
Now, in addition to being a great genius, a wonderful man, a wonderful husband, a wonderful father, Charles Darwin was also a world-class Victorian prude.
The biological father is a nonissue.
And let's face it, John could be anybody's father, brother or friend.
That means that it's starting to seem like a character defect not to want to be a fully engaged father.
RNG: No doubt, but modern anti-war movements reach back to a long chain of thinkers who had argued as to why we ought to mobilize our emotions against war, such as the father of modernity, Erasmus.
Before that, she was my daughter, but now I am her father.
She is not welcomed, neither by father nor by mother.
The neighborhood comes and commiserates with the mother, and nobody congratulates the father.
She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses the code of that so-called honor, she could even be killed.
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