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My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

— Shirin Neshat

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a doctor.

— David Alan Grier

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

— Ken Kercheval

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

— Lewis Thomas

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

— James Tobin

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

— Greg Iles

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

— Tess Gerritsen

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

— Oscar Isaac

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

— Ruth Reichl

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

— Herbie Hancock