My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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"I am what I have become."

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"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

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"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

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Integrity

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

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"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

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