“I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.”– Robert Mapplethorpe Related Quotes “There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.”– Arne Duncan “I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.”– Leona Lewis “I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”“- Sammy Davis, Jr.”