"My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it."
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Dad
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- "On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven’t arrived yet and bring me back to reality."― Candace Parker
- "I didn’t really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, ‘Where’s the rest of it?’ It didn’t have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements."― Dweezil Zappa
- "My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."― Anthony Hopkins