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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have h...

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family...

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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...

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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a l...

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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 h...

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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

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No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there th...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd...

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the fut...

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, fam...

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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, ...

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I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a ki...

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I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, ...

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Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and sc...

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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with th...

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Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...

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Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous...

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Louise ErdrichThe Master Butchers Singing Club

The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered ...

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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...

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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was...

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Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

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Madeleine L'EngleMeet the Austins

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just an...

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The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it'...

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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always ma...

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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you...

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it,...

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Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.

(...) everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all,...

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The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chi...

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If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't r...

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home,...

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Mark TwainPudd'nhead Wilson

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...

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‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We shoul...

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Listen, whatever you see and love—that’s where you are.

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes ...

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Mary OliverLong Life: Essays and Other Writings

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...

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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

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Maya AngelouAll God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's s...

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Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed ...

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Maya AngelouLetter to My Daughter

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fea...

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Maya AngelouLetter to My Daughter

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family...

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But there is no Messiah of Sitka. Landsman has no home, no future, no fate but Bina. The land that h...

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to so...

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt an...

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Michael ShaaraThe Killer Angels

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing e...

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Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your di...

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Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the ear...

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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But th...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown ...

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of ...

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'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardic...

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or ...

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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want h...

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Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

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N. K. JemisinThe Fifth Season

He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he wou...

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he wou...

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Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand...

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Neil StraussThe Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom

I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'...

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God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

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Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commen...

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...

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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will ...

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope i...

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to c...

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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight o...

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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in....

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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls ...

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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to th...

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It’s well known that he who returns never left