"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

Home, Country, State

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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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

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Alan Moore, British Writer

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

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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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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

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"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

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