"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."

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"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."

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"I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money."

Beryl Bainbridge, English Novelist

Home, Men, Money, Children

"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."

Jon Ronson, Welsh Journalist

Home, People, America, Heroes

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

James Madison, American President

Home, Danger, Liberty, Loss

"We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs."

John Bonham, British Musician

Home, Months, Songs, Writing

"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

John Green, American Author

Home, Memory, Comfort, Life

"My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

Home, Film, Jokes, Race

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

Rick Allen, American Musician

Home, Time, America, Land

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Home, War, Achievement, Effort

"I think I feel automatically at home in Italy."

Boyd Rice, American Artist

Home, Italy

"My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property."

John Breaux, American Politician

Home, Property, Want

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"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

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"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."

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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."

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"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."

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"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."

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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."

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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."

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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

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