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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘home’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.” -David Bailey
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“I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.” -Joe Biden
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“I mean, I love L.A. – I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It’s a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don’t do that every time, then you’re considered a failure.” -Kristen Stewart
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“After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.” -Adam Lambert
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“It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.” -David…
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“Performers are so vulnerable. They’re frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it’s warm, where it’s OK to fail – a kind of home, I suppose.” -Jane Campion
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“What I’ve learned in my life, it’s a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with…
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“I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George A. Moore
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“Before I had kids I’d go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don’t think I’d want to do that anymore, because I’d miss too much time at home, so it’s just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I’m on…
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“Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.” -Fiona Apple
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“I am a voyager – and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.” -Emmanuelle Beart
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“Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don’t know where the bathroom is.” -Billy Carter
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“White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.” -Ron Fournier
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“I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.” -Alan Alda
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“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” -Gwendolyn Brooks
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“Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.” -Kenny Chesney
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“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.” -Rosie O’Donnell
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“I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.” -Tony Campolo
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“These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.” -Marc Andreessen
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“After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you’re sitting home and wondering, ‘What am I doing?’” -Demi Lovato
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“I have enough music coming out of my kids’ bedrooms when I’m at home.” -Rod Stewart
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“If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“I exercise at home – light cardio and yoga.” -Danica McKellar
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“I’m from a small town so, like, everyone’s married with children or about to have children. So it’s a little hard when you go home and people are like – and that’s why people think I’m gay – because they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And I’m like, ‘it doesn’t happen for everyone right off…
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“Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.” -Maynard James Keenan
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“I miss England. I miss the weather. I’ve spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I’m ready to come home.” -Sting
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“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.” -Robert Cormier
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“Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There’s nothing more satisfying.” -Elayne Boosler
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“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” -Sojourner Truth
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“I don’t really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.” -Pete Townshend
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“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” -David Frost
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“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” -Matsuo Basho
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“When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.” -Calvin Klein
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“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.” -Max Baer
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“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.” -Hesiod
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“God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.” -Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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“I’m an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.” -Maria…
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“A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.” -Garrison Keillor
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“I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.” -Mark Zuckerberg
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“When I come home and I’m tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.” -Oliver Reed
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“Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.” -Walter Knott
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“I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.” -Nicole Kidman
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“I think they quite like me when I work because I’m one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don’t bring their costs in back home, once they’re shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.” -Satyajit Ray
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“If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.” -Jason Statham
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“If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.” -Shelley Long
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“I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I’m working, it’s 100%. When I’m with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it’s pure joy and everything’s worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I’ve learned how…
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“When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, ‘Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.’” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“If you don’t have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don’t take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It’s crazy.” -Jack Welch
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“I’m actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.” -Miley Cyrus
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“I’m actually a pretty decent human being, and when I’m home I’m straight as an arrow.” -Kid Rock
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“In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.” -Henrik Ibsen
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“I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.” -Eric Cantona
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“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.” -Don Fraser
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“The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people – which I don’t ever want to do… So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it’s profoundly enjoyable.” -Emma Thompson
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“We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.” -Jesse Ventura
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“There’s no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.” -Louis C. K.
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“I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.” -Goldie Hawn
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“I’ll be here in my home with three big screens. I’ll be watching three games at a time, and when they’re over, I’ll look at three more.” -Hayden Fry
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“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.” -Morgan Freeman
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“Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.” -Bono
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“Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.” -Francesca Annis
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“And, you know, you try and preach to them there’s more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There’s some dedication in it, some love you’ve got to put into this work.” -Eddie Murray
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“Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.” -Annie Lennox
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“You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.” -Julia Roberts
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“It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.” -Neil Gaiman
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“I never would have given up my work to stay home.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.” -Layne Staley
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“Like your home’s closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.” -Suze Orman
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“I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.” -Susan Orlean
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“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Snowboarding’s tough, because you’ve got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don’t have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.” -Shaun White
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“A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.” -John Shadegg
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“I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.” -Janice Dickinson
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“I’m still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there’s half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.” -Alan Rickman
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“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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“Don’t corral me, and I’ll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.” -Sandra Bullock
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“I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.” -Joan Jett
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“He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.” -Joseph P. Kennedy
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“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” -Silvia Cartwright
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“I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we…
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“I don’t believe in organized religion – I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.” -Jonathan Davis
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“Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.” -Camille Paglia
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“Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.” -Novalis
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“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.” -Casey Stengel
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“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.” -Frank Herbert
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“Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.” -Matt Blunt
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“You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.” -Rand Paul
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“Going home must be like going to render an account.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!” -Larry David
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“I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was ‘home.’” -Julie Andrews
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“When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, ‘Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?’” -Blake Shelton
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“Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.” -LeBron James
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“If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.” -David Byrne
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“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.” -Joseph A. Schumpeter
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“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue.” -Jay Leno
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“A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.” -Mel Gibson
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“I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.” -Madeleine Albright
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“I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It’s just so much better here than anywhere else. It’s better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.” -Curtis Stone
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“Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.” -Kinky Friedman
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“If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you’ve made a whole new load of friends and she’s made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you’re kind of strangers.” -Michael Caine
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“Children who cling to parents or who don’t want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.” -Dirk Benedict
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“Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.” -Emily Bronte
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“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.” -Marco Rubio
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“Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.” -Elvis Presley
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“I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.” -Stephen Fry
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“I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like…
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“All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” -Thomas Wolfe
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“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” -Richard Branson
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“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” -Janis Joplin
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“Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.” -Jennifer Ellison
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“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” -Bill Ayers
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“I don’t really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.” -Jeff Bridges
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“To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.” -Tiger Woods
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“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.” -Satchel Paige
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“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in – there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.” -Cat Stevens
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“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.” -Christina Aguilera
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“I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can’t be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn’t discuss media coverage.”…
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“I’m going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I’m going home right now.” -Benjamin Day
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“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” -E. W. Howe
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“I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.” -Ivor Novello
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“For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I’d come home and go to church and everybody would say, ‘Oh, my God. Demetri, you’re working at the White House.’” -Demetri Martin
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“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” -Anita Baker
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“It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.” -Terry Pratchett
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“For target shooting, that’s okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that’s why we have police departments.” -James Brady
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“Obviously there’s not much options when you’re a cartoonist – you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.” -Scott Adams
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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.” -James Thurber
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“Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: ‘I’ll do this for now, but I’m really a drummer.’ That’s what I’ll put on my passport application.” -Jack White
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“But if there’s an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we’ve made a terrible mistake.” -Pat Robertson
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“I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That’s the same view I have for performing. I’m performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.” -Yo-Yo Ma
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“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.” -Augustus Hare
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“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read – they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.” -Russell Banks
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“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.” -William Cowper
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“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.” -Ann Landers
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“We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.” -William Shatner
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“Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” -Jean Kerr
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“Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less…
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“Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“I’m the type of woman you might say is too good. I’ll massage a man’s feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.” -Angie Stone
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“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.” -Henry Lawson
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“When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.” -Delta Goodrem
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“I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.” -Robert Plant
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“I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.” -Babe Ruth
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“Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.” -Paris Hilton
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“By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.” -Paul McCartney
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“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.” -Jean Paul
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“Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.” -David Bowie
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“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.” -Garry Moore
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“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.” -Washington Irving
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“Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That’s but a hint of what we’ll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be ‘at home’ in a way that defies description.”…
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“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” -Steven Spielberg
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“It’s not like I’m this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.” -Heidi Klum
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“The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.” -William Temple
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“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.” -John Dewey
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“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Edward Moore
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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