"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

Lesley Garrett, English Musician

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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Home, Privacy, Identity, Trust

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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, American Comedian

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"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."

Christian Morgenstern, German Poet

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"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Home, Love, People, Moment

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"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."

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"To be alive at all involves some risk."

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"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

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"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."

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"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."

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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

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